Have it Your Way!! Corn and Soybean Seed Quality Workshop
Seed Quality Workshop – done your way. Please join us this year for our Corn and Soybean Seed Quality Workshop August 19, 2009 (Wednesday) in Brookings, SD. We are changing this training to tailor it to your business, you will be able to select the work stations that you wish to learn the most about. Training will benefit quality assurance personnel, seed and genetic technologists, and others interested in seed testing analysis. This workshop is helpful for those planning to take future seed technologists exams or those working in seed companies and/or laboratories. Topics are taught through lectures, demonstration of methods along with considerable time spent in doing hands-on analysis.
Stations
Rules (AOSA, International Seed Testing Association (ISTA), Federal Seed Act)
Soybean Harvesting – Soak Test
Seed Sampling
Tests of Choice – Purity, TZ, Germ, Vigor, Seed Pathology
Biotechnology in Crops, Corn Bts Explained, Herbicide Bioassays
Seed Storage and Seed Physiology
Information Management - Sample Track®
Information Management - Report Services v-Worksheet®
Topics of your suggestion
Tour of Lab
We will be doing breakout sessions for everyone to be able to discuss and learn more in depth the tests of their choice.
Stations (Circle 10)
1. Soybean Harvesting - Soak Test
2. Sampling
3. Purity
4. Moisture
5. Warm Germination – Rules (AOSA, ISTA)
6. Corn Vigor
7. Soybean Vigor
8. Tetrazolium
9. Fungi and Pathogens
10. Seed Storage
11. Seed Treatment
12. Herbicide Bioassay – Soybean and Corn
13. Variety Purity
14. Corn Bts
15. Biotechnology 101
16. Information Management - Sample Track®
17. Information Management - Report Services – v-Worksheet®
18. Topic of your suggestion: ________________
Other topics that you would like discussed:
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Click here for a registration form.
Please fax this sheet along with the registration form to (605) 692-7617.
See you August 19th!!
After receiving your registration, we will send out more details on the agenda and local arrangements to you.
Sincerely,
Kalyn Brix-Davis
Genetics Director, Branch Manager