Seed Conditioning, Volume 2 : Technology--Parts A & B

ISBN-13: 9781578086085 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 1000 str.

Bill Gregg;Gary Billups;¬Abar

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Seed conditioning is a vital part of the technology needed to move higher-yielding, cost-effective improved genetic materials from the plant breeder to the farmers who must produce food for the rapidly expanding world population. This book presents the knowledge of seed conditioning.

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Seed Quality
Supplying High Quality Seed
Role and Principles of Seed Conditioning
Handling Bulk Seed
Receiving Raw Seed
Determining Conditioning Requirements and Lab Mode Cleaning
Seed Moisture
Drying Seed
Moving Seed in Conditioning
Bucket Elevators
Airlift Elevator
Conveyors
Surge or Hopper Feed Bins
Extracting Vegetable Seed
Precleaning and Scalping
Debearder
Brush Machine
Scarifier-Huller
Corn (Maize) Shelle
Decorticator
Cottonseed Delinting
Peanut (Groundnut) Sheller
Basic Cleaning—Air-Screen Cleaner
Length Separators
Gravity Separation
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
Buffel Grass Seed Cleaners
Buckhorn Machine
Timothy Bumper Mill
Horizontal Disk Separator
Horizontal Blower Separator
Brine and Flotation Separations
Needle Cylinder Separator
Dockins 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-Weighing
Weighing
Forming Clean Seed Lots
Vaporproof Packaging
Handling Cleaned Seed
Cleaning Sequence
Small-Scale and Portable Seed Cleaning
Designing a New Conditioning Line
Mobile Cleaning Facilities
Seed Priming