Seed conditioning.
Subtitle: a practical advanced-level guide to help managers, technical specialists, professionals, to achieve better seed in less time and cost
By: Bill (B.R.) Gregg & Gary L. Billups.
Contributors: Billups, Gary L.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Science Publishers; CRC Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Enfield, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 497
ISBN-13: 9781578085729
Subjects: Seed technology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Business laws; title: Seed law; title: Seed enterprise structure and organization; title: Enterprise and conditioning planning; title: Financing a seed enterprise and conditioning; title: Income from conditioning; title: Costs and cost control; title: Conditioning plant area and buildings; title: Enterprise technical management; title: Conditioning organization and staffing; title: Conditioning management; title: Planning and preparing for conditioning; title: Conditioning records; title: Conditioning reports; title: Maintenance; title: Safety in conditioning; title: Preventing seed loss; title: Mechanical injury to seed; title: Waste products; title: Dust control; title: Seed bags and containers; title: Internal quality control (IQC); title: Sampling; title: Testing seed; title: Lot numbers; title: Labels and seed identification; title: Blending; title: Clean-out and preventing contamination; title: Flow management by color coding; title: Seed building construction; title: Seed storage principles; title: Non-conditioned storage; title: Conditioned storage; title: Managing seed storage; title: Handling certified seed; title: Training operators and staff; title: Procuring equipment for a new conditioning plant.