Upcoming Workshop: Oct 21-22, 08 Brookings SD
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Participants completing the workshop will have taken the first step towards accreditation to sample for ISTA certificates. This workshop is an excellent education experience for anyone sampling seed, regardless if you export.
Milt Haugen, Croplan Genetics, participated in a seed sampling workshop and said, "To do justice to your customer and your company's product, everyone should attend a sampler workshop."
The following topics are reviewed:
• ISTA and AOSA sampling rules
• sampling methods
• sealing seed lots
• subdividing samples
• review of ISTA certificates and their use
Registration Fee: $250.00 per person for the Brookings Workshop.
Workshop presentations and materials are provided in English. Exams are now available in Spanish for a translation and correction fee of $100. Please make requests for exams in Spanish at time of registration.
For more details on Sampler Workshops and the Sampler Program follow the links below or call Terry Lemme at 605-696-5664.
Frequently Asked Questions about Seed Sampling Workshop
Information about the Seed Sampler Program
Don’t Just Take Our Word for It!
See what past seed sampler participants have had to say:
Chief Operating Officer “ “Even if you are not expecting to need Orange Certificates for your export customers, the workshop provides an excellent base for a sampling program within your company.”
Production Quality Control Manager: “A must for anyone monitoring production quality control in an ag cleaning business today. A great help for monitoring internal operations & for training.”
"I have done lots of sampling before but now know how to do it right."
"The discussion and open forum style of your workshop made the ISTA Rules, and sampling in general, much more lucid. Thank you!"
"It (the workshop) combined classroom training with actual hands-on sampling methods. In addition, by being trained and becoming an authorized ISTA sampler, this offers more opportunities to our customers. Moreover, gives them more reassurance that the integrity and the quality of their products are being maintained."