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Hamilton - New Zealand

Hi, Hope everyone is doing well.

I was wanting to know more information on places in the US that can provide this certificate for pumpkin seeds before being sent to NZ.

If anyone has any company names, contact info, stuff like that, it would be appreciated.

Thanks
Sam

2/3/2015 5:19:17 PM

Eddyz@efirehose.net

I don't know about the US But I get them regularly so I can get seeds into the US from Canada
The inspection process is done here by an agricultural office (part of the government)
All seeds are inspected and they issue the certificate that must accompany the seeds.

Each inspection process costs me $26.00 Canadian, and it can be for 1 seed or 1,000, makes no difference.
But they are a 1 time use so every time you want to get a bubble from the US, you will need to go through this process. The other draw back to all this, the first few times I did this, they needed to see each individual seed, which meant opening each and every envelope. Now its not so drastic as they only inspect random envelopes.

2/3/2015 6:44:40 PM

Colorado

Eddy do they ever take a culture or are they just visually inspecting.

2/5/2015 2:14:49 PM

Eddyz@efirehose.net

All are visual inspections, they are looking foe mold spores, dirt and other foreign particles and weed seeds mixed in.
The whole inspection system is meant for commercial movement, like truck, train and boat loads.

2/5/2015 5:00:33 PM