The American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) updated its Environment, Conservation, and Cover Crop Seed Resource Guide guide. This guide aims to assist farmers, landowners, and others with locating and contacting professional seed suppliers for quality environment, conservation, and cover crop seed.
The interactive Environment, Conservation, and Cover Crop Seed Resource Guide aims to help buyers find dealers for specific seed types by geographic location to support production and sustainability goals.
"It's important to plan proactively, and as far in advance as possible, to ensure your local, professional seed dealer has your selection of seed in stock when and where you need it," said ASTA President & CEO Andy LaVigne. "Professionally produced and processed seed is designed to help farmers achieve success through managing the use of the right seed, at the right place, at the right time. It has been selected, harvested, cleaned, analyzed, processed, and packaged for performance, and it has been tested for purity and germination. All of this helps ensure you get the best quality seed to meet your production and sustainability goals while minimizing the presence of invasive and other weeds."
ASTA works with its members to update this map every year. A recent survey by ASTA found that an added 10.5 million acres of cover crops will be planted in the next five years as a result of USDA's Partnerships for Climate Smart-Commodities projects.
View the updated Environment, Conservation, and Cover Crop Seed Resource Guide here.
For more information:
American Seed Trade Association
1701 Duke Street, Ste. 275
Alexandria, VA 22314
Tel.: (703) 837-8140
info@amseed.org
www.amseed.org