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Why Buy American Grown Seed?
1. American grown seed is alive and fresh
All imported seed has been orderedsterilized by USDA to
prevent importation of noxious weed seed with the niger
2. Buying American grown helps our balance
of payments and strengthens the dollar
American grown seed is the same price or only slightly
more than the dead imported seed.
Got to seed store to buy nyger (niger) seed
Read more below and go to American grown and live seed
advantage for more information.
Feel free to CONTACT US (below left) for any questions.
BIRDS prefer LIVE, AMERICAN GROWN niger seed
All imported niger seed has been sterilized at 248 degrees,
not to eliminate the mess under the feeder or toast it for
the birds, but to kill invasive weed seeds. No other
birdseed is sterilized, only imported niger seed.
(Read below and click on live seed advantage)
Among the most often-asked questions heard at
birdfeeding.org is,"Should I bake birdseed to stop
sprouting when it falls to the ground?" birdfeeding.org
simply does not recommend baking seed because it may
change the value of its nutritional content, which defeats
the purpose of using it in the first place.
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Buy American grown niger
viable seed, some quite high percentages, you too, probably have
had imported niger sprout under your feeder.
About Us After 20 years of research development in southern Minnesota, the variety EarlyBird,
was developed and adapted to the U.S Nyger is an alternate spelling of Niger. Niger has been cultivated in India and Ethiopa for thousands of Niger has bee cultivatedin Ethiopia and India for over a thousand years..It is not a thistle or related to any thistle. It is not sterilized because niger is a weed. It has none of the characteristic that make some plants weeds. In 1982, large shipments of niger/nyger seed were detained at ports of arrival because during a U.S. Department of Agriculture inspection, they had been found with contamination of dodder seed (Cuscuta sp.)Dodder is a serious agricultural pest because it is a parasitic weed which attaches itself to the host.This eventually leads to the decline and death of the host plant. This variety of Dodder is not known to exist in the U.S. Exotic pests always tend to be much harder to control than domestic species, because there are no natural predators.
A treatment was found to devitalize the dodder seed which still left the niger with a 4% germination at a heat exposure of 4 hours.The findings were published as follows:
Studies on the use of dry heat to decontaminate niger seed (G. abyssinica) infested
with dodder seed (Cuscuta sp.)Strasser, EG Seed Sci. & Technol. 1988; 16: 501-505
This treatment, however, was insufficient to kill seeds of other Federal noxious
weeds, including Asphodelius fistulosus Linnaeus (onion weed), Digitaria spp. (includes African couchgrass), Oryza spp. (red rice), Paspalum scrobiculatum Linnaeus (kodo millet), Prosopis spp. (includes mesquites), Solanum viarum Dunal (tropical soda apple), Striga spp. (witchweed), and Urochloa panicoides Beauvois (liver-seed grass). In 2001 a new treatment required that imported niger seed must be heat
treated at 248 deg.F (120 deg.C) for 15 minutes
Additional information on EarlyBird and niger cultural practices can be seen at: http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/carringt/02data/2002%20Annual%20Report/Niger.htm EarlyBird is Plant Variety Protected. See: |