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Publication Date

9-1988

Series Number

4358

Abstract

The Western Australian Registered Field Crop Scheme is an industry cooperative scheme entered into voluntarily by the participants. Agriculture Western Australia, through its AGWEST Plant Laboratories business unit, administers the scheme and supervises industry agreed production and marketing guidelines.

The Registered Field Crop Scheme differs from certified seed schemes by reduced direct supervision of the production by Agriculture Western Australia.

Producers agree to abide by the following rules and are responsible for the correctness of the final product to meet the quality descriptions for each seed lot as described on the appropriate seed analysis statement and in these rules.

The rules of the registered seed scheme have been established to minimise the chance of contamination occurring and causing the seed harvested to be different to the original breeders seed. The rules vary from species to species but cover such things as ensuring that the paddock sown is free of other cultivars of the same species; cross pollination is minimised; crops are inspected to identify and reject crops whose contamination levels are below the standards specified; cleaning, sampling and testing of the resulting seed lots is mandatory and that samples of registered seed lots are assessed to check the system has succeeded.

Number of Pages

23

ISSN

1326-415X

Publisher

Agriculture Western Australia

City

Perth

Keywords

Crops, Cropping, Western Australia

Disciplines

Agricultural Science | Agronomy and Crop Sciences | Natural Resources and Conservation | Natural Resources Management and Policy | Soil Science

Comments

AGWEST Plant Laboratories

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Bulletin 4358 - Western Australian registered field crop scheme production rules

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