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If you are a certified grower in the
Arkansas Certification Program, you may advertise that you have
certified seed for sale. If you advertise early in the season, be
sure to follow through on all the requirements. Staff will check
to see if samples have been submitted for complete analysis and
certified grades and/or tags issued. If you advertise during the
planting season, and have not yet submitted samples for complete
analysis, you will be subject to the appropriate enforcement
action.
Sample Ads (early in season):
- Taking orders for Certified Hutcheson
Seed. Name, Phone #
- Certified Growers/Dealers - Drew
Rice available for bulk transfer. Name, Phone #
Before placing an early season ad,
it would be wise to at least have a sample submitted for germ, varietal
purity and noxious weeds. Follow up as soon as possible with cleaned
seed samples for complete analysis.
Do not advertise soybeans or
rice as Bulk Certified, Field Certified, or Subject to Certification
if bagged & tagged.
- Bulk Certified - Not available
for Rice or Soybeans!
Regulations require the seed to be bagged in regular size bags
(or approved reusable containers for soybeans) with certified
tags.
- Field Certification - There
is no such designation!
Checking the field to see if it meets certification requirements
is only a first step in the process of certification. After
it passes the field inspection, a sample must be drawn by our
inspector on the cleaned seed to check the purity, germination
and moisture (complete analysis) to see if it meets the standards
for certification. If it does, an analysis report will be issued
showing the seed made certified blue-tag grade. After the seed
is bagged in the proper containers, certified tags can be issued.
- Subject to certification if
bagged & tagged - should only be used on invoices
for seed varieties allowed to be sold as non certified. A complete
analysis showing the lot was tested and eligible for a certified
grade is required to be on file.
Remember,
A certification permit
only allows the sale of bagged and tagged certified seed. The only
other option available for selling rice or soybeans under the seed
certification permit is to sell it to another certified grower/dealer
on a bulk transfer form. This transfers the certification responsibilities
to another certified grower to complete the certification process.
If you find another certified grower who wants to buy the seed on
a bulk transfer form, please note that a copy of the form goes with
the sale and the buyer must sign and return a copy to our office.
If you are selling non-certified
seed, you need a Seed Dealers License, complete analyses and payment
of tonnage fees.
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