Tasmania’s only internationally accredited seed testing laboratory has lost accreditation for a key test after operating with just two staff instead of seven for almost a year, a union has claimed.

But the Department of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE Tas) has labelled the comments “not factual” and says they “should be rejected”. The Tasmanian Seed Services Laboratory at Mt Pleasant is ...

After more than 130 years in Geneva, the New York state seed testing facility will soon have a new home at the state capitol, State Agriculture Commissioner Richard Ball announced Monday.