Mid-West Seed Services announces that it is addressing the needs of the native seed industry by providing customer driven information on the seed analysis reports. The needs of the various segments of the native seed industry are widely different depending upon if they are the seller, the agricultural consumer, or the reclamation and revegetation industry. The information provided to each of these segments on the analysis report needs to fulfill all their needs and enable them to make an informed decision about their seed.

The joint Industry/Government/AOSA/SCST Native Seeds Task Force has been studying problems in the native seed industry for two years. The Task Force goal is how to provide more uniformity in Native seed industry for labeling, testing, and marketing. As an outreach effort of this, a selected group has developed recommendations to AOSA/SCST for changes to the suggested format of the seed analysis report.

Mid-West Seed Services as well as certain other labs has been providing this information on their seed analysis reports for several years. MWSS will be incorporating additional statements of clarification of testing methods, treatments applied, and dormant seed evaluations into their standard analysis report.

As either the seed producer or the seed consumer, you need to make sure the seed testing laboratory where you test your seed provides you information that allows you to make an intelligent informed decision about your seed. Mid-West Seed Services, Inc. seed analysis report does.