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1.14 - Rice Quality Assurance Program with Timothy Blank

UCANR Season 1 Episode 14

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Together, the UCCE Rice Farm Advisors seek to provide relevant, topical research-backed information relating to CA rice production.

Timothy Blank (Director of Seed Certification Operations, the Foundation Seed Program Executive Director, and the Certified Seed Program Advisor for the California Crop Improvement Association) and Sarah Marsh sit down to talk about the California Crop Improvement Association (CCIA) Rice Seed Quality Assurance Program (Program), which provides a uniform and unbiased quality control system and marketing tool for crop seeds that cannot be verified and merchandised as a class of certified seed as defined by the Association of Official Seed Certifying Agencies (AOSCA).

California Crop Improvement Association Resources

CCIA Website
Certified Seed Sampler Training

Other Resources

UC Rice Blog

UC Agronomy - Rice

Rice Briefs (Colusa/Yolo)

Rice Notes (Yuba-Sutter)

Rice Leaf (Butte/Glenn)

Field Notes


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