Pasture seed coating - a case of buyer beware

摘要

The seed industry has been coating seed for commercial sale for many decades now but what exactly is in those coatings and how necessary are they? Jill Griffiths reportsNew South Wales Department of Primary Industries agronomist Richard Hayes tells the story of a batch of mixed pasture seed his father recently bought for the family's farm at Goulburn, NSW."The mix included two varieties of phalaris and one of them was coated and one wasn't," Hayes said. "I was curious about this so my son and I sorted a subsample of phalaris seed out and I weighed them.