Cover Crop Permission Letter

The South Dakota State University allows the use of PVP Title V varieties in cover crop blends. The Plant Variety Protection Act states the following:

“Title V −SALE OF UNCERTIFIED SEED OF PROTECTED VARIETY Sec. 501. It shall be unlawful in the United States or in interstate or foreign commerce to sell or offer for sale or advertise, by variety name, seed not certified by an official seed certifying agency, when it is a variety for which a certificate of plant variety protection under the Plant Variety Protection Act specifies sale only as a class of certified seed: Provided, That seed from a certified lot may be labeled as to variety name when used in a mixture by, or with the approval of, the owners of the variety. “

A letter explaining how to properly comply with Title V for SDSU varieties, and SDSU varieties only, can be found here.