Canada’s Farm Progress Show connects local producers and international customers with the latest in dryland farming equipment, technology and innovation.
The program is similar to the soybean seed program, but focused on requirements for food grade identity preserved soy and dry edible bean markets with an emphasis on issues relevant to primary export markets and related processes. Equipment demonstrations include seed c...
Participants will evaluate seedlings from testing methods on two seed lots of corn and two soybean seed lots and will see how their results compare to the class average, high and low results. Traditional seed testing methods include warm germination (sand, rolled paper ...
The emphasis of the week will be on seed identification through working with samples, advice from instructors, and use of electronic and hard copy references. Participants will have the opportunity to work with up to 32 species of seeds, grasses, legumes, cereals plus w...
Participants will gain experience evaluating seedlings of 16 species (crops, vegetables, flowers grasses, etc.) from the warm germination test plus work with cold tests, accelerated aging, tests for biotech traits (herbicide bioassay, immunoassay), tetrazolium and more.
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