Tennessee Crop Improvement Association

The Tennessee Crop Improvement Association is an incorporated, non-profit organization of seed growers and turfgrass producers. State legislation designates the Association as the official seed-certifying agency in Tennessee. Requirements for certification of seeds conform to the Federal Seed Certification Regulations and the Association of Official Seed Certifying Agencies. The Association works in cooperation with seed growers, seedsmen, sod growers, the State Department of Agriculture, University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, Agricultural Extension Service, and Agricultural Experiment Stations.

To maintain and make available to the public sources of high quality seeds and propagating materials of superior varieties so grown and distributed as to insure genetic purity and identity. Seed certification is accomplished by means of inspection of fields, seed analysis and regulations for checking production, harvesting and cleaning of each seed lot. Varietal purity is the first consideration, but seed quality factors such as germination, inert matter and mixtures of other crop and weed seeds are important. Tennessee seed certification is designed, therefore, to maintain not only the genetic purity and identity of crop varieties but also provides safe standards for germination and mechanical quality factors

TENNESSEE CROP IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION

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