SureSeed quality assurance program
The SureSeed program from Seed Services Australia offers a lower cost alternative to other seed certification schemes.
It allows growers and seed companies to produce high quality seed for sowing and is particularly suited to broadacre crop seed species.
SureSeed was jointly developed by Seed Services Australia and DDLS Seed Testing and Certification (formerly AGWEST Plant Laboratories).
Program features
- Approval and audit of crop inspectors and seed testers
- Inspections by trained crop inspectors
- Quality assurance documentation and husbandry measures to reduce contamination
- Sale of seed in bulk or bagged lots
- Sale by SureSeed Certificate of Analysis
- Seed analysis by International Seed Testing Association (ISTA) accredited seed laboratories
The SureSeed program provides integrity by applying:
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development seed scheme principles
- International Seed Testing Association rules
- Australian Seed Federation national code of practice for seed labelling and marketing
- quality assurance risk management principles.
Eligible varieties
All registered varieties of broadacre and pasture crops can be grown within the SureSeed program. Other species may be approved on request.
How to apply
- Complete the SureSeed program application form ().
- Send the completed form with a farm map and a copy of the certificate of analysis for each sowing.
Selling SureSeed seed lots
SureSeed can be sold in bulk or bagged lots.
Seed produced within the SureSeed program must be:
- graded and sampled by an authorised party
- tested for purity and germination
- sold in accordance with the code of practice for seed labelling and marketing.
Page last reviewed: 18 Jan 2023