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Weevles in New Seed
« on: September 03, 2010, 02:22:51 AM »
I purchased a couple of hundred dollars worth of seed to plant in my food plots.  When it was delivered on Tuesday this week one of the bags of sorghum was heavily infested with weevles and loaded on top of the other seed bags.  Now, before I can get it into the ground, the rest of the seed bags are loaded with weevles and I have had them for only two days.

I called the seed company.  They will make good on the bag of infested seed, I would hope on the others too (not discussed yet), but I will have to wait for them to pick it up and deliver another before I can get that seed planted.

Anybody had an experience with weevel infested seed?  Some of it must still be ok or the weevles would move on.  Should I go ahead and plant the infested seed and hope for the best?  Wait for the exchange before planting everything?  Be concerned about that seed company?

Almost always seed has weevles in it, or so has been my experience over years of food plotting.

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Re: Weevles in New Seed
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2010, 09:35:13 AM »
I have seed left over from year to year , allways has weeveles go a head and plant it you will still get some to come up
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Re: Weevles in New Seed
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2010, 08:17:48 AM »
Are there hot climate ways to keep seed from getting weevils longer?  Maybe I should just purchase and plant.  then I don't need to worry about the weevils.