The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced that an Enid, Oklahoma, seed company has paid USDA $3,850 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act.

The company, Texas Oklahoma Production Company, settled the case in agreement with officials from USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service. The company neither admitted nor denied the charges.

The case resolved by the settlement involved seven shipments of rye seed and one shipment of mixed grain seed made to Georgia, Texas, and Arkansas.

The alleged violations, while not the same for all shipments, were:

• false test date on label;

• failure to supply complete records;

• false labeling in regard to noxious-weed seed; and,

• false labeling in regard to pure seed and other crop seed.

AMS administers the act with the help of state seed officials. Seed regulatory officials in Georgia, Texas, and Arkansas cooperated with AMS in the investigations. The Federal Seed Act is a truth-in-labeling law designed to protect farmers and consumers who buy seed.