ALERT ! please read.

[boarderbloke]

anyone else find anything in their Dekalb 72-55RR ??? found "wild oat" type seeds( maybe grass or small thin barley??) didn't want to rub them off too much incase someone might want to test them. only one or maybe two per bag/50lbs. tricky to find but noticed the first one sitting right on top when I opened a bag, after that started to watch for more and found them. went in tank and found a couple more when I spend the seed around.(I'm not advising anyone to go in their seed tank with canola seed present!)

this is very alarming to me.

[SASKFARMER3]

Me smell a new weed. Hm

[dave4441]

I am not sure what the specs are but would guess one or two per 50 lb sample will likely be way, way within spec. Not good none the less, but when you do a really big sample like that you can get some real high numbers. Maybe one of the seed growers will comment.

[boarderbloke]

my only concern, is if it's tolerant.

[Hopperbin]

If run through a cleaner why would there be a wild oat type similar seed in there???? We pay way too much for this seed.

[dave4441]

Send the seeds to the Sask Ag Crop Lab in Regina, they can tell you what it is.

[furrowtickler]

Find out if it blended with 08 seed. Dekalb blended thousands of bags this past winter with old low germ seed to save seed stock. The way some of that stuff is blended I am surprised if thats all you find. Food for thought - and oh yeah, you paid $7-8/lb for that.
Different color seed treatment in the same bag is a sure sign, as well as the seed tag. May have nothing to do with the wild oat thing but I have seen this before.

[boarderbloke]

"09 blend" on tag. what is germ on #1, 85%, so add 10-15% left over treated seed from the year before, nice,

[furrowtickler]

09 blend may mean two things, seed blended from two seed lots of the same year. Or seed blended from different years.
Some blend for specific seed size - just from different seed lots from the same seed stock. A good thing, consistant seed size for even seeding.
Others just use the system to blend out one - two year old crap just enough with new seed to make #1.(90%). No one none the wiser - unless you read seed tags and ask questions. New varieties are the safe bet - no carry over.
Remember all those "speacial" deals from the line companies for oil premiums and blah blah - they were blowing out seed they had to get rid of very fast before it was carried over again then sent to the dump.
Again, this may not be the reason for the wild oat thing but it should ring an alarm bell.

[boarderbloke]

thanks, furrow