Quality Assurance

How it works

The first important step in raising quality seed with varietal puriety and free from noxious weeds is to purchase seed from reputable companies. Secondly, we take steps to plant only on "clean" ground that meets KCIA's requirements. Every wheat field is rogued for rye, other noxious weeds, and off-type plants.

Each certifiable field of wheat is then inspected by a representative of KCIA for varietal purity and seed history requirements. When the wheat is cleaned, we take a representative sample for KCIA to test. KCIA will test for purity, germination, test weight, and seed size. Test results are printed on each seed certification label.

We throughly clean all drills, combines, grain handling equipment, bins, legs, augers, and cleaners between each variety. This takes longer, but it ensures that there is no contamination from any other variety of seed.

We are a Category One Seed Conditioner. That means that we meet all requirements for conditioning certified seed. The wheat is first cleaned over a Clipper air screen cleaner to remove the chaff and smallest seed. It is then cleaned over an Oliver gravity table which uses gravity and air to separate the heaviest and best quality seed from the rest.

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