THE BALL SEED ® DIFFERENCE
Ball Seed is dedicated to providing the highest quality inputs so you, our grower customers, can grow your most successful crops every season. You’ve shared with us that 60 or 70% seed germination rates mean you are losing out on over a third of your business when that crop doesn’t perform. You still have to pay for the seed and the labor of planting, the cost of watering, the energy to grow the crops, and the monitoring for pests and diseases, but at the end of the season, you don’t recoup those costs with a saleable product. We’ve listened, and our solution is to provide more in-depth seed testing and verification through our Ball Vigor Index ® (BVI) ratings. BVI incorporates the concept of uniformity with germination to assure a consistent standard across an entire plug tray. This means our customers have the best opportunity to maximize the number of transplantable seedlings. When this seed is used to grow plugs, research has shown that the uniformity of the transplanted plugs also makes a difference in the uniformity of the finished bedding plant flat. BVI also helps us assure that our customers receive no bad seed lots. Seeds that fail to meet our BVI standards are removed from sale. We’ve also spent decades studying how seed moves through a seeder and how it reacts when it hits the media. We’ve learned a lot about pelleting, de-fuzzing, de-tailing and slick-coating seed, all to make it easier for seed to make its way to a plug flat. At Ball Seed, we truly make it our business to know about all seed.
2027 SEED PRODUCTION GUIDE Our technical experts have created a Seed Production Guide to help growers get the most success from their seed lots. The guide is available by mail or as a downloadable file at ballseed.com in English and Spanish.
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