Field visit (agriculture)

Seed propagation area in which the photographer indicated the species “Arrezo”, the breeder “RAGD”, the seed category “Z1” and the field based on the legal information on the sign near the field

The field inspection is used today in agriculture to assess a population of agricultural crops in order to determine whether the harvested crop is suitable for sale as seeds. The legal basis is the Seed Traffic Act in conjunction with the Seed Ordinance or the Seed Potato Ordinance . Relevant provisions of the Fertilizer Ordinance , the Ordinance on Amending Seed and Fertilizer Law and the Ordinance on Amending Seed Law and Amending the Cultivation Material Ordinance are also monitored. In Austria there were already in the 1930s ordinances for field inspections similar to those in Germany today.

Historically, the term field inspection was used in connection with tax law. At the time of feudal rule , the subjects had to give their taxes in kind as part of the harvest. In the event of bad harvests, they were obliged to have their areas inspected before the start of the harvest. Exceptions were made in the case of hail damage in the sheaves after the harvest had already started.

Web links

Explanation of today's field inspection by the Chamber of Agriculture North Rhine-Westphalia with more precise data as an attached pdf

Guidelines for the field inspection within the scope of the seed approval according to the "Seed Ordinance" and according to the "Seed Potato Ordinance" from the "Working Group of Recognition Bodies for Agricultural Seeds and Planting Material" (pdf; status 2011)

Individual evidence

↑ Working Group of Recognition Bodies for Agricultural Seeds and Planting Material: Guidelines for Field Inspections in the Context of Seed Recognition , Edition 11, 2009 ( online as pdf )

↑ Gustav Pammer, Rudolf Ranninger: Der rationelle Grainebau: with special consideration of the choice of varieties in Austria , Springer-Verlag, Reprint 2013, ISBN 978-3-7091-9560-4 , p. 90

↑ Hanoverian learned advertisements: from the year 1753, Schlueter, 1754, p. 1216 ( limited preview in the Google book search)

↑ Johann Heinrich Ludwig Bergius, Johann Beckmann: Collection of selected German state laws which have the policey and cameral system as their subject, Volume 6 , Andreean Buchhandlung, 1789, p. 59 ( limited preview in the Google book search)

[1] Working Group of Recognition Bodies for Agricultural Seeds and Planting Material: Guidelines for Field Inspections in the Context of Seed Recognition , Edition 11, 2009 ( online as pdf )

[2] Gustav Pammer, Rudolf Ranninger: Der rationelle Grainebau: with special consideration of the choice of varieties in Austria , Springer-Verlag, Reprint 2013, ISBN 978-3-7091-9560-4 , p. 90

[3] Hanoverian learned advertisements: from the year 1753, Schlueter, 1754, p. 1216 ( limited preview in the Google book search)

[4] Johann Heinrich Ludwig Bergius, Johann Beckmann: Collection of selected German state laws which have the policey and cameral system as their subject, Volume 6 , Andreean Buchhandlung, 1789, p. 59 ( limited preview in the Google book search)