Can You Use Green Cover Seeds if You're Certified Organic?

0:03 And on those inoculants are those organic? Do we have organic seed is something that we get quite often? Yeah we get that question a lot we do.

0:20 Work with a lot of organic growers. I'm happy to do that, seems like. And I would say there's more and more all the time. I think more people are transitioning to that. Our seed is not certified organic.

0:33 It's too hard to come by. And if you don't have all organic seed for your mix, then you just as well not have any because it's not going to make the certifier.

0:43 This is the way the organic standards act reads. For those organic growers, if they've looked three places and they can't find certified organic seed for that cover crop.

0:55 They are allowed to use seed that is non-GMO and non-treated, and so we have all non-GMO seed. And I would say that 98% of all of our seed is

1:07 Untreated as well once in a while we'll get a treated sorghum because that's the only way we can get it especially late in the year. So we are very careful to keep that segregated and not run that through the.

1:18 Mixer where we do our organic mixes. So if you're organic we don't have certified organic seed but we can help you out with non-GMO and not treated, and then all of our inoculants.

1:44 Just haven't gone through the paperwork hassle of getting it on relisted so. Well we're able to work with organic folks in a pretty good fashion on that.

1:55 Yeah one thing I would really strongly

1:58 Strongly encourage if you are certified organic let us know. There's nothing worse than shipping somebody some seed and they plant it and then their certifier throws a flag.

2:13 And they come back and said you shipped me seed that wasn't, you know, something that wasn't certified organic that you've never told us. Yeah, make sure you tell us.

2:25 I mean nothing else just to get the paperwork pre-started. Right, right. And like Keith said, you know, 98 percent of what we sell is not an issue anyhow. But I had some guy yesterday asked for a quote, put a quote and had some concept treated sorghum. And he said I can't use that, I'm organic. I said didn't tell me, so make sure you tell. It's a lot better if we know up front than after the fact.