https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/97923c26-2262-4f07-ba77-1b1cc42fd264 Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Browse our products on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2YILTSD This color educational film directed by E.D. Holden and photographed by Freeman Brown and Walter Melves is about the procedures done in developing new varieties of small grains and the production of Wisconsin Certified Seeds. This was made in 1953 by the University of Wisconsin. As the film makes clear, Wisconsin Certified Seed is developed through careful study and genetic modification through generations. Care is taken to protect varietal purity and to provide seed of sound mechanical quality. It is produced directly from certified Foundation seed stocks supplied to the seed producers each year by the UofW College of Agricultural and Life Sciences or other certified Foundation seed stock sources. Seed production fields are inspected by the Wisconsin Farm Improvement Association for varietal purity, isolation and freedom from severe weed problems. The seed, after conditioning, is sampled and laboratory tested for varietal and mechanical purity and germination. Each bag of seed, which meets certification standards, is tagged with an official Certified seed label. Opening: Wisconsin Certified Seeds (:07-:50). Tractor in a wheat field. A tractor farms wheat crop. A farmer walks through a wheat field and pulls apart a grain. He looks at another piece of wheat. Two researchers assist the farmer. A man opens a grain flower. With tweezers he removes the flower (:51-3:15). A plastic bag is used to mark the flower this was done on. Inside a seed house, a man studies samples. Heads are crushed by hand leaving few grains. Seed packages are put in order. These are placed in a small box (3:16-4:48). Experimental plots for grain planting. Men plow. Grain breeders plant hundreds of different seeds. A hand drops seeds into the dirt. The area is then raked (4:49-6:00). Men look at what's growing. A man looks at plants growing. Grain diseases are studied, different types are explained. Leaf rust. Mildew on leaves. A man checks the wheat crop. A man does an artificial test to make sure seeds are healthy (6:01-8:52). A man sprays the plants with disease organisms to give a chance for infection. Healthy plants grow side by side with infected ones. A greenhouse (8:53-9:54). Out in the field, rows are studied and checked. Wheat crops are looked at. Harvesting is done by hand sometimes, some plants are cut with a sickle or pulled out. Paper bags protect the heads. A grain separator is used to thresh (9:55-11:38). Hybrid grains are in plots. Fields are being harvested with a binder. Grain breeders check the seeds (11:39-13:01). Men in the foundation field. Grain is ground up and spit out. Grain is bagged. Seed bags are stocked. Grain is moved to the elevator pit. Sacks filled with treated seed. Foundation seed bags loaded onto trucks, bags are opened and checked by hand. Seed is poured into a machine and then put into fertile soil (13:02-15:36). Seed certification is done by workers who survey the fields. Wheat field. Inspectors counsel with growers in the field, make sure it is up to par. Combine harvester goes through the wheat crops. Grain is poured. Field is harvested (15:37-17:29). Seeds are processed. Separation is done on the grain. From processing, the seed is finally bagged. Huge wall of bags. A bag is sampled for testing. An inspector jots down the sample. Purity is checked. A woman pours seed to test it for moisture. Germination chamber (17:30-19:29). Office workers. Seed bags are certified and labeled: " Wisconsin Certified ". Bags of Wisconsin certified seed. Men meet in a business meeting. A man sits in a field, clips crop. Rows of seed plants growing. Plot testing. Men inspect foundation fields. Certified seed label. Processing, storage, tests, germination tests. Bushels of grain. Bags of Wisconsin Certified Seed grain. A sign reads 'the sign of good seed' (19:30-21:55). No end credits. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. 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