Sentences with phrase «commercial seed»

His findings demonstrated the need for strict isolation conditions for the production of commercial seed.

I bought commercial seeds this year and plan on saving seeds from this year's garden.

Large fields looked nice, but could easily be grown from commercial seed stock.

But Savory was not impressed by environmentalists» arguments, nor by the efforts of commercial seed companies to engineer genetically modified crops to be drought - resistant.

Large commercial seed producers, small scale home gardeners or any seed swap / exchange individuals or organizations are welcome to join, as well as garden centers that stock Chile seeds or plants, starting and growing medium, and / or hydroponics equipment.

For starters, it's part of a wave of global consolidation in agriculture that will put an increasingly large portion of the world's commercial seed market — roughly 50 % — under the control of a few giant multinationals.

$ 36.5 billion Total estimated value of the world market in commercial seeds as of 2008.

Just five companies (Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, DuPont, and Syngenta) own more than 60 % of the global commercial seed supply, and with many of the modern seed varieties being hybrids that won't breed true for home gardeners and small - scale farmers, or that have regulations outlawing the collection and replanting of seeds, today's growers are being locked into a cycle of reduced genetic diversity, which may lead to a potentially dangerous food security situation in the near future.

Tracts of land planted with commercial seeds are pushing out local crop varieties and erasing the knowledge gained from 10,000 years of farming.

It would also have unacceptable market concentration in wide swaths of commercial seed development and sales for other commonly used varieties, including traited canola, soybeans, and corn developed in North America.

Growers should check the seed packet for a germination percentage when buying commercial seed.

The event features Stuart Andrews from Natural Sequence Farming, Dr David Murray, a botanist, historian, expert in peas and beans and a foundation member of the Seed Savers Network, Martin DeLauney from a native food business, Rowena Petrie from commercial seed company Royston Petrie Seeds, which supplies Eden Seeds and The Diggers Club, herbalist Pat Collins and Colleen Oldman, who is an expert in propagating flowers.

Commercial seed producers avoid cross-pollination by isolating varieties and planting them at least a mile from each other, which is farther than the average bee flies.

Commercial Seed.

Q: Hi Dave, I bought commercial seeds this year and plan on saving seeds from this year's garden.

Commercial seeds are treated with mercurial fungicides.

Their diet isn't particularly fussy and a commercial seed mix is usually fine by them.

Terminator Seeds Monsanto and the US Government together hold the patent for a commercial seed called «Terminator,» that is designed to commit suicide after just one harvest.

Monsanto and the US Government together hold the patent for a commercial seed called «Terminator,» that is designed to commit suicide after just one harvest.

GamETec was founded in 1993 by Dr. David P. West, a veteran of the commercial seed industry and a pioneer in agbiotechnology.