Seed Conditioning
Volume 2: Technology
Advanced-level Information for Managers • Technical Specialists • Professionals
Bill (B.R.) Gregg, Ph.D.: Seed Industry Development & Conditioning Specialist
Gary L. Billups: Seed Conditioning Specialist & President, Crippen International, Inc.

ISBN 978-1-57808-608-5; March 2010; 1016 pages (2 vols.), hc; US $ 179.95


About the Book
Seed conditioning is a vital part of the technology needed to move higher-yielding, cost-effective improved genetic materials from the plant breeder to the farmers who must produce food for the rapidly expanding world population.

This book is a follow-on, major update to bring together, in a logical sequence, present knowledge—both old and new—of seed conditioning, to help seed managers, specialists, and conditioning operators reduce loss of good seed while improving seed quality and honing the efficiency of their operations.


Contents:

• Seed Quality
• Supplying High Quality Seed
• Role and Principles of Seed Conditioning
• Handling Bulk Seed
• Receiving Raw Seed
• Determining Conditioning Requirements and Lab Mode Cleaning
• Seed Moisture
• Drying Seed
• Moving Seed in Conditioning
• Bucket Elevators
• Airlift Elevator
• Conveyors
• Surge or Hopper Feed Bins
• Extracting Vegetable Seed
• Precleaning and Scalping
• Debearder
• Brush Machine
• Scarifier-Huller
• Corn (Maize) Shelle
• Decorticator
• Cottonseed Delinting
• Peanut (Groundnut) Sheller
• Basic Cleaning—Air-Screen Cleaner
• Length Separators
• Gravity Separation
• Stoner
• Width and Thickness Grading
• Roll Mill
• Magnetic Separator
• Color Sorter
• Aspirators and Pneumatic Separators
• Spiral Separator
• Draper (Inclined Belt) Separator
• Table Separator
• Picking Tables or Belts
• Vibrator Separator
• Friction Separator
• Buffel Grass Seed Cleaners
• Buckhorn Machine
• Timothy Bumper Mill
• Horizontal Disk Separator
• Horizontal Blower Separator
• Brine and Flotation Separations
• Needle Cylinder Separator
• Dockins Separator
• Electrostatic Seed Separator
• Resilience Separator
• Polisher
• Installing Conditioning Machines
• Controls and Control Systems
• Operating and Monitoring Machines
• Seed Treating
• Seed Coating and Pelletizing
• Dehumidified Drying
• Bagging-Weighing
• Weighing
• Forming Clean Seed Lots
• Vaporproof Packaging
• Handling Cleaned Seed
• Cleaning Sequence
• Small-Scale and Portable Seed Cleaning
• Designing a New Conditioning Line
• Mobile Cleaning Facilities
• Seed Priming

  
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