seed stock
Future crop source
Seed stock refers to a reserve of seeds kept specifically for planting future crops rather than for consumption or sale.
Farmers and agricultural operations maintain seed stock to ensure genetic continuity and reliable harvests season after season.
The term extends to breeding animals kept for reproduction rather than slaughter, and more broadly to any foundational supply meant to generate future production.
We saved our best potatoes as seed stock for next spring.
- germplasmHereditary tissue for propagation
- grainCereal plant's harvest unit
- breedingReproductive cultivation of organisms
- plant breedingDeveloping improved crop varieties
- storeRetail establishment
planting · planting season · growing season · sow · cultivar · variety · sack · farming · cover crop · kernel · husk · genetic diversity · genetics · selective breeding · plant nursery · handful · scoop · agriculture
- agribusinessagribusiness, farm, farms, corporate farms, factory farming
- germplasmgermplasm, gene pools, genetic material, accessions, cryopreservation
- mussels industrymussels, blue mussels, mussel beds, spat, depuration
- oyster farmingoyster farming, oyster farms, oyster beds, oyster reefs, oyster reef
- livestockcow, cows, cattle, bull, bulls
- seaweedkelp, nori, wakame, kombu, dulse