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Native Seed Quality Symposium
The Native Seed Quality Symposium planned for June 5th, 2007 in Cody, Wyoming provides an excellent forum for discussion and education on a variety of progressive topics.
The Afternoon Session will focus on current seed viability research and concerns relating to viability testing. Tour and Dinner the symposium will conclude with a tour of native seed production fields and the University of Wyoming Research and Extension facility. Participants will have the opportunity to visit informally during the evening reception and picnic dinner. Exhibitors |
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Native Seed Quality Symposium
7:00 7:45 Registration and visit
exhibits Session I 8:00 12:00 Moderator: Tim Gutormson 8:00 10:00 Native Seed Producers/Conditioners/Marketers/Consumers Seed Testing Issues Discussion. [5 minute (m) remarks/speaker, 45m Q&A and 15m wrap up] Invited Speakers List:
10:00 10:30 Break sponsored by Anchor Paper Company, St. Paul, Minnesota 10:30 -12:00 Seed Analysts/Seed Researchers - Testing Consistency Issues Purity, Germination, Tetrazolium and Seed Analysis reporting. [5 minute (m) remarks/speaker, 45m Q&A and 15m wrap up] Invited Speaker List:
12:00 - 1:00 Buffet Lunch sponsored by Mid-West Seed Services, Inc., Brookings, South Dakota
Session II 1:00 5:00 Moderator: Morgan
Webb
1:00 1:30 Colorado seed law changes
for native species
1:30 2:00 An emerging challenge,
linking seed tests with legal requirements. 2:00 2:45
Laboratory
sampling, purity and viability test relationships Deborah Meyer,
2:45 3:30 Coreopsis seed viability testing 3:30 4:00 Break & Visit Exhibits sponsored by Agri Seed Testing, Salem Oregon 4:00 4:30 Tips
for native germplasm development and release
4:30 5:00 The Taming of
Yellowstone's Native Plants 5:15- 5:30 Buses Depart To Heart Mountain (20m travel time) 6:00 7:00
Grass production field tour and view a demonstration of the 7:05 7:15 Travel to Powell Research and Extension Center (10m travel time)
8:30 9:00 Buses Depart to Cody & Hotels (30m travel time) |
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Native Seed Quality Symposium
NST Labs
Mid-West Seed Services, Inc. Mid-West Seed Services, Inc. (MWSS) is an ISTA-accredited, ISO9001-certified seed testing laboratory offering complete testing services and research on seed, grain, plant tissue and food products. Results, Right on Time!! Samples are processed the same day they arrive with real time live data available from our website. ISTA Orange and Blue International certificates are available. Our staff of two dozen seed analysts includes 7 RSTs (Registered Seed Technologists; 3 RGTs (Registered Genetic Technologists); and many other certified testing professionals. MWSS has developed a state-of-the-art physiology testing laboratory for the seed industry. Innovations including Sample Trackฎ software, planting line, water/media temperature control systems, team evaluations, trait testing, check systems and tablet PC data entry provide clients with consistent and agronomically accurate test results. We consistently identify seed lot quality differences, so clients can make informed decisions for their company and customers. The Multi-Species Laboratory tests more than 400 different species annually, performing Purity, Noxious, Germination, Tetrazolium, Herbicide Bioassay and a number of other tests. Soybean virtual tests and quantitative PCR services are conducted in our DNA Laboratory.
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Producing, conditioning, testing, and marketing native seed involves a
wide variety of unique challenges. Communication between stakeholders is
vital to the development of solutions to the issues facing the native seed
industry. 
The
Morning Session will begin with speakers representing
producers, conditioners, marketers and consumers participating in a panel
discussion on seed testing issues. They will be followed by a panel of
seed analysts and researchers who will provide their perspective on
testing consistency issues including purity, germination, tetrazolium, and
seed analysis reporting. The panel discussions will include remarks from
participants followed by a question and answer period and wrap up.