Seed Conditioning, Volume 1: Management

Encompassing all of the myriad components involved in seed conditioning, this comprehensive compendium draws on the life experiences, trials, and efforts of a range of seed conditioners. Utilizing a brief and easy-to-understand format, this book expounds on the need for good seed conditioning for a good crop yield, the cost of conditioning as part of capital investment, and the techniques to make conditioning an accurate, economic, and practical endeavor. Chapters cover business considerations, engineering, operations, equipment, and biology as well as plant physics, physiology, and pathology.