User:Wingman4l7/Seed cleaner
http://earthfamilyalpha.blogspot.com/2009/07/seed-cleaner.html
- goes over the story of Maurice ("Mo") Parr and the lawsuit involving him and Monsanto over his seed cleaning business (discussed in the Food, Inc. documentary)
Monsanto -- http://www.monsanto.com/foodinc/seed_saving.asp
Seed saving -- itself needs cleanup/wikification
- should I add a link/mention of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault to this article?
it has been suggested to merge Seedy Sunday with Seed swap - perhaps work on this? at the very least, portions of Seedy Sunday lack necessary punctuation
http://www2.bioversityinternational.org/publications/Web_version/188/ch04.htm
http://www.wv.nrcs.usda.gov/news/06may_nv/stonesriver.html
- "Seed conditioning typically utilizes specialized equipment, such as this large seed cleaner, which employs screens, vibration and air pressure to separate vegetative debris from seed. Conditioning is performed to improve seed handling and/or germination characteristics."
Seed cleaning rooms
[edit]Located on the east side of the elevator, the seed cleaner take up three floors. In one hour, 100 tonnes of wheat can be cleaned, at such a rate it takes the cleaner only 46 hours (4 days) to clean seed for 50 train cars. The seed cleaner doesn’t just separate all foreign matter from the grain; it also sorts the foreign matter into six different groupings. The seed cleaner has six refuse bins holding wild oats, salvage wheat, mixed grains, salvage canola, cracked kernels and a small dust bin. Of the 55 tonnes of chaff sold annually, 2/3rds of it is chaff and 1/3 of it is small seeds and cracked kernels. The materials separated out of the grain have a certain amount of revenue and are sold to the animal feed industry
The seed cleaner is a complicated piece of equipment completing a multiplicity of tasks. The material that is removed during the seed cleaning process is placed in the bins below the seed cleaner or is sucked up to the top of the elevator through the silver tubes. The clean grain is elevated back to the top of the elevator by a small leg. At the top of the elevator it is placed onto a paddle drag that deposits it into bins 2, 4, 12, 13, 27 or bin 28. The dust separator deposits the dust it collects into the chaff holding bin on the north side of the elevator. All the silver tubes in the three photos below are part of this scavenging system; removing the dust and chaff from the different parts of the seed cleaner. Altogether, the seed cleaner stretches over a height of 70 feet.