Westin Kansas City at Crown Center - Kansas City, MO, United States
Held in conjunction with the Western Seed Association's Annual Meeting. The ASTA programming typically includes meetings on cover crops, environmental and conservation seed, sorghum seed, and topics of interest to grass, turf, forage, conservation and cotton seed compan...
Foundational level, designed for plant breeders and their teams, this course will aid in the design and development of a true hybrid breeding engine, covering the topics of breeding targets, germplasm, and trait organization into pools, the importance of hybrid testing/...
Foundational level, designed for plant breeding, product development, agronomy, and seed professionals working in all areas, this foundational course covers topics in descriptive statistics, data visualization, distributions, correlation, regression, comparison tests, r...
Level 1: R for plant breeders, scientists, trial specialists, agronomists, and their teams: introduction, set-up, and workflows. This module aims to introduce Seed industry professionals to the world of R and to guide them through setting up their work environments, too...
Networking and learning about innovations in the grass seed business are what drive attendees to ASTA’s annual fall conference in Kansas City, held in conjunction with the Western Seed Association’s annual meeting.
In-person instruction is planned, contingent upon the global pandemic situation at the time - Davis, CA, United States
The Seed Business 101 course was created, with input from industry executives, to accelerate the careers of promising new employees and young managers. By selecting and sponsoring employees to attend this course, companies acknowledge past performance and invest in acc...
A 3 half-day online course designed to enhance the knowledge of professionals working on hemp improvement and propagation. The course covers hemp seed production topics such as flowering, pollination, seed development, harvesting and certification.
Tentative dates, based on whether we are able to hold in-person classes in September of 2021: September 13-18, 2021 / February 7-12, 2022 / June 6-11, 2022 / September 12-17, 2022 / February 6-11, 2023 / June 5-9, 2023