“Forage seed started the Canadian seed trade. Companies were founded on it. Regulatory and trading systems were created to facilitate the sector. Plant breeders focused on it and entire careers were spent in it. Some say the ‘heydays’ of Canadian forage and turf seed are gone. Others are confident that the best is yet to come. What are the opportunities for the future of the forage and turf seed sector? What are the challenges?” So wrote Patty Townsend in our March 2017 edition. We felt it was time to revisit the state of the forage sector, but from a different point of view: asking several people who live and breathe forage for their thoughts on what the sector means to them and their advice for others who have chosen seed as their life’s work. Every section of the indus- try means different things to different people. Forage seed is… FORAGESEEDIS… Every facet of the seed industry represents different things to different people. We look at what the forage sector means to six people who love it. Marc Zienkiewicz 28 GERMINATION.CA JANUARY 2019