Introduction to Organic Practices
organic seeds and planting stocks to protect the integrity of their crops. Organic growers may use conventionally grown seeds when an equivalent organic variety is not commercially available, but only if the seeds have not been genetically modified or treated with prohibited substances, such as fungicides.
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