The following items can be considered a good beginning list of documents: completed application, current business plan including financial projections, current financial information, appraisals on the items to be offered as security, drawings of any structures to be built or modified.

Under the Plant Variety Protection Act of 1970 (revised 1994), an originator, developer, or owner of a variety may obtain legal protection for that variety exercising one of two enforcement options. For more information visit the USDA Plant Variety Protection Office.

Boll weevil eradication is accomplished with two techniques - Pheromone traps for detection & chemical treatments for control. The program begins with autumn diapause applications. In subsequent years, traps are placed around cotton fields in the spring as cotton is planted. Traps are monitored & pesticide applications are made to all infested areas. For boll weevil eradication to be successful, all cotton fields must be monitored.

(1) A service sample may be submitted and upon receiving favorable results, a supplemental label, containing the updated germination percentage and new test date, can be placed in the vicinity of the existing certified label.  (2) If the seed owner chooses to place new certified label on the lot, then the seed lot must be resampled by LDAF inspectors and submitted as a certified sample.

Total Maximum Daily Load:[USEPA] The maximum quantity of a particular water pollutant that can be discharged into a body of water without violating a water quality standard.