Seed grower feedback requested
If you grow pedigreed forage grass or legume seed,
there are proposed changes to rules for pedigreed seed production.
Understand these changes by logging in to watch a live webinar, Thursday, November 02 09:00 SK time and then ask questions to CSGA, read the summary of changes, and let CSGA know what you think about the proposed changes. Feedback from growers is requested before 4:00 PM CDT (5:00 PM ET) November 15, 2023.
Proposed rule changes to Canadian Seed Growers Association, Circular 6, the requirements that a seed grower and a seed crop must meet for seed crop certification. Changes apply to Foundation, Registered, and Certified seed.
Understand what might be different for your seed production, three ways:
Download the document by clicking here Summary of proposed changes to Circular 6, sections 6 and 7.
Hear the basics of changes in a webinar and Q&A with CSGA at 09:00 Saskatchewan time, Thursday, November 02, 2023. REGISTER HERE for the CSGA webinar
The 20-minute presentation has been recorded, so if you are not able to join the webinar and ask questions to CSGA, you can watch the webinar here (in English).
The proposed revisions refer to:
maintaining appropriate isolation and maximum impurity standards for other crop kinds that can cross-pollinate with the inspected crop or where the seeds of the other kind are difficult to distinguish from seeds of the inspected crop kind in a lab test; and
no longer requiring isolation from or having a maximum impurity standard for those kinds with seeds that may be difficult to separate from seeds of the inspected crop, but the seeds are not considered difficult to distinguish from one another in a lab test, and the two crop kinds do not readily cross-pollinate.
Grower feedback is extremely important.
Forage seed growers are invited to provide feedback on the proposed changes via email to CSGA,
contact Gail Harris and Mike Scheffel by calling 613-236-0497, ext. 227, or email :
Mike Scheffel, Managing Director, Policy and Standards: mscheffel@seedgrowers.ca
Gail Harris, Standards Manager: gharris@seedgrowers.ca gharris@seedgrowers.ca
