AMSEED American Seed Intelligence Platform

American Seed Trade Association

association · founded 1883 · Alexandria, Virginia

One of the oldest trade associations in the United States, representing companies in seed breeding, production, and distribution since 1883. Its long-running motto, "First - the Seed," captures the industry's premise that seed is the delivery mechanism for every advance in plant genetics. ASTA's policy record, on biotechnology, adventitious presence, intellectual property, and invasive species, forms a large part of the historical library referenced across this site.

From 1996 to 2016, ASTA's website lived at amseed.com, this domain. In May 2016 the association moved its web presence to betterseed.org, where it operates today. AMSeed is an independent seed intelligence platform with no affiliation to ASTA; this profile exists because decades of institutional citations still point to ASTA documents at their historical amseed.com addresses, and readers following those references deserve to land somewhere that explains both the organization and the history.

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Events: ASTA Annual Convention · CSS & Seed Expo (Field Crop Seed Convention) · ASTA Farm & Lawn Seed Conference · ASTA Vegetable & Flower Seed Conference

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Sources & References

Evidence: 2 sources, all commercial catalogs. No independent reference documents this variety yet.

  1. About ASTA: 'First - the Seed' (historical about page) · American Seed Trade Association (2001), AMSeed Archive · archived original
  2. AMSeed is now BetterSeed · Southeast AgNET (2016), Trade Press