WSDA Seed Program It All Starts With A Seed

"It All Starts with a Seed, Seeds feed the world," says Washington State Department of Agriculture Seed Program Manager Victor Shaul. You go into a grocery store, Shaul explains, and nearly everything in there "starts with a seed." Shaul, who has been with the WSDA seed program for thirty years, says that the seed program is charged with three main areas: operation of the official state seed laboratory, seed certification for varietal identity and purity, and phytosanitary inspection and certification of seed crops to meet import requirements of foreign countries. Shaul started in the seed lab right out of college and "loved it" and has never left.