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The Viability of Seeds in Feed Pellets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

David L. Zamora  and
James P. Olivarez
David L. Zamora
Affiliation:
Dep. Plant Soil Sci., Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT 59717
James P. Olivarez
Affiliation:
U.S.F.S., P.O. Box 7669, Missoula, MT 59807
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Abstract

Seed response to grinding in a hammer mill or extrusion through a pellet die was determined. Less than 1% of spotted knapweed, sulfur cinquefoil, timothy, and alfalfa seeds were intact after grinding to pass through a 1-mm screen. Intact seeds of all tested species except sulfur cinquefoil were able to germinate after grinding. Extruding unground alfalfa seed through a die to make hay pellets decreased viability 60 to 63%. After grinding and extrusion through a grain pellet die, 53% of intact alfalfa seeds in the pellets were viable. These data demonstrate that feed pellets can contain viable weed seeds.

Keywords

Spotted knapweed, Centaurea maculosa Lam. # CENMAsulfur cinquefoil, Potentilla recta L. # PTLRCalfalfa, Medicago sativa L. ‘Ranchers Blend’ and ‘Ranger’ # MEDSAtimothy, Phleum pratense L. # PHLPRGerminationhard weedweedsCENMAMEDSAPHLPRPTLRC

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Research
Information
Weed Technology , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , March 1994 , pp. 148 - 153
Copyright
Copyright © 1994 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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