Case Study:

A South Australian company processing grain for feed needed to be certain that noxious seeds were eliminated from their product during processing.

Solution:

Seed Services Australia tailored a training course to improve their skills in identifying the relevant noxious seeds.

Course Outline:

• What is a weed?
• Weeds legislation
• Effects of weeds
• Classification and nomenclature
• Seed identification
• Major plant families
• Practical identification training (up to 50 species)

Bonus

Individually tailored weed seed collections can be assembled for purchase for invaluable on-site
reference.

Seed lot sampling training

To be meaningful, samples need to represent the entire lot of seed. Save time and money and possibly your reputation by learning how to sample and divide seed to prepare a quality sample. Our course is based on internationally recognised methods for accurately sampling seed, with both theory and ‘hands-on’ exercises to get the most out of the training.

Course outline:

• Accurate sampling
• Seed lots
• Sample variation and tolerances
• Sampling equipment and techniques
• Sampling a seed lot
• Submitted samples

Contact Seed Services Australia for information about courses, times and costs.

Save time and money with specialised training

Rural Solutions SA
Government of South Australia
Phone (08) 8303 9549
seeds@ruralsolutions.sa.gov.au
www.ruralsolutions.sa.gov.au/seeds
A Division of Primary Industries and Resources SA