Overview

Seed conditioning removes undesirable material including debris and stray seeds from selected raw harvested seed, so as to create planting seed that delivers high yielding crops. This two-volume set provides a major up-date of previously published work. It describes the essential information needed to understand this process and the machinery involved. It describes the machines available to seed conditioners and explains how they can be installed, operated, adjusted, and maintained to give complete and precise separations for many years. All the machines are described in sufficient detail, sometimes with the help of models to enable the conditioner to get good results. The book also details the operating sequence used to properly prepare seed before going into each machine. Organized in a logical sequence, it catalogs all the entire field of seed conditioning, to help seed managers, specialists, and conditioning operators reduce loss of good seed while improving seed quality and honing the efficiency of their operations.

Full Product Details

Author:   Bill Gregg (Seed Industry Development & Conditioning Specialist, Starkville, Mississippi, USA) ,  Gary Billups (Crippen International, Inc., Anna, Texas, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Science Publishers,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 6.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   1.723kg
ISBN:  

9781578086085

ISBN 10:   1578086086
Pages:   1000
Publication Date:   08 April 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgements, List of Illustrations, List of Tables, PART A, Seed Quality, Supplying High-Quality Seed, Role and Principles of Seed Conditioning, Handling Bulk Seed, Receiving Raw Seed, Determining Conditioning Requirements and Lab Model Cleaning, Seed Moisture, Drying Seed, Moving Seed in Conditioning, Elevators, Airlift Elevator, Conveyors, Surge or Hopper Feed Bins, Extracting Vegetable Seed, Pre-Cleaning and Scalping, Debearder, Brush Machine, Scarifier-Huller, Corn (Maize) Sheller, Sugarbeet Seed Decorticator, Cottonseed Delinting, Peanut (Groundnut) Sheller, Basic Cleaning—Air-Screen Cleaner, Length Separators, PART B, Gravity Separator, Stoner, Width and Thickness Grading, Roll Mill, Magnetic Separator, Color Sorter, Aspirators and Pneumatic Separators, Spiral Separator, Draper (Inclined Belt) Separator, Table Separator, Picking Tables or Belts, Vibrator Separator, Friction Separator, Buffelgrass Seed Cleaners, Buckhorn Machine, Timothy Bumper Mill, Horizontal Disk Separator, Horizontal Blower Separator, Brine and Flotation Separations, Needle Cylinder Separator, Dockins Red Rice Separator, Electrostatic Seed Separator, Resilience Separator, Polisher, Installing Conditioning Machines, Controls and Control Systems, Operating and Monitoring Machines, Seed Treating, Seed Coating and Pelletizing, Dehumidified Drying, Bagging and Weighing, Weighing, Forming Final Clean Seed Lots, Vaporproof Packaging, Handling Clean Seed, Seed Cleaning Sequence, Small-Scale and Portable Seed Cleaning, Designing A New Conditioning Line, Mobile Cleaning Facilities, Seed Priming, Index

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Dr. Bill Gregg has managed seed conditioning programs, done research on development and design of machines, helped manufacturers of equipment, written operation and maintenance manuals, trained managers and operators, and helped design and install many seed plants in several countries. Gary Gillups is President of Crippen International which has installed seed plants in all continents except Antarctica. The level of technology provided ranges from simple portable equipment to large fully-automated conditioning plants for organizations ranging from small-to-large private companies to governments and international agencies.

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