old seeds
William Aley (Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:18:10 PDT)
Hi Big brother's helper here.
link to the Federal Seed act or 7 C.F.R. PART 201—FEDERAL SEED ACT
REGULATIONS
http://law.justia.com/us/cfr/…
http://www.ams.usda.gov/lsg/seed/seed_pub.htm
The date does help identify those seeds that have lower germination
rates as time passes.
William Aley
aley_wd@mac.com
On Mar 28, 2008, at 11:36 PM, Kenneth Hixson wrote:
Dear Members
I suspect the seed companies wanted us to buy new supplies each
year and
inferred, by dating their packets with a particular year, that
fresh was
needed for germination.
There are federal laws requiring that seed
packages be marked with the year packaged, the
germinating percentage--within six months, I believe
--and country of origin. Supposedly this prevents
seed companies from selling "bad" seed.
Another well intentioned regulation from
"Big Brother". How well the law is enforced is
another matter.
Ken
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