SOUTH DAKOTA SEED CERTIFICATION STANDARDS

Millet (Proso and Foxtail)

Seed Certification Standards
(Self-Pollinated Species)

I. Application and Amplification of General Certification Standards
The General Seed Certification Standards are amplified as follows to apply to millet. Eligibility requirements: only the Foundation and Registered seed classes are eligible for recertification. The Certified class is not eligible to be recertified except in the case of an older variety for which Foundation seed is not being maintained.

II. Land Requirements
No other variety of millet may have been grown on the field the previous year except a crop of the same variety which was inspected and passed for certification.

III. Field Standards
A. Fields producing a class of Certified seed will be inspected before harvest when the seed begins to mature and/or take on color.

B. Isolation
A field shall be separated by a strip of ground adequate to prevent mechanical mixtures. The strip may be either mowed, uncropped or planted to some crop other than the kind being Certified.

C. Unit of Certification
The field shall be considered the unit of certification and a portion of a field can be accepted for certification provided that portion of the field meets the isolation requirements stated in B above.

D. Specific Requirements

* Inseparable other crops shall include crop plants, the seed of which cannot be thoroughly removed by usual methods of conditioning.
** Noxious weeds are designated by the certifying agency.  Refer to Number 23 on the Standard's Home Page.

VI. Seed Standards

Web page last modified on March 06, 2000 by Kay Ruden.