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Catalog of Certified Varieties and Producers of Planted Crops

  • What's behind the label on a bag of seed?
  • How do I become a certified seed grower?
  • Small Grain & Forage Buyers Guide
  • Turfgrass Buyers Guide
  • GCIA Newsletter Winter 2022
  • Peanut & Soybean Buyers Guide

  • Organic Certification
    Organic Certification
    NOP Accredited Organic Certification for Georgia Farmers Learn More
  • Field Inspection
    Field Inspection
    GCIA Inspects Over 130,000 Acres of Seed Crop Fields Each Year Learn More
  • ITGAP
    ITGAP
    GCIA manages the International Turfgrass Genetic Assurance Program (ITGAP). ITGAP ensures that certified grasses are grown, inspected, and sold under rigorous protocols that promote ongoing purity and uniformity. Learn More
  • GCIA Certified Turfgrass
    GCIA Certified Turfgrass
    When only the best will do, ask for ‘Blue Tag’ Certified Sod! Learn More
  • Peanut Harvest
    Peanut Harvest
    GCIA certifies over 100,000 acres of peanut seed each year. Learn More
  • Ask for GCIA Certified Peanut Seed
    Ask for GCIA Certified Peanut Seed
    Learn More
  • Quality Assurance & Identity Preserved
    Quality Assurance & Identity Preserved
    Unbiased Third Party Audits Customized to Meet the Producer’s Needs Learn More
  • GCIA Food Safety Programs
    GCIA Food Safety Programs
    Food Safety Programs in Cooperation with the Georgia Fruit & Vegetable Growers Association Learn More
  • Certified Seed Doesn't Cost, It Pays
    Certified Seed Doesn't Cost, It Pays
    Learn More
  • GCIA Certified Turfgrass
    GCIA Certified Turfgrass
    When only the best will do, ask for 'Blue Tag' Certified Sod? Learn More

Welcome to Georgia Crop Improvement Association

The Georgia Crop Improvement Association is an organization of seed producers and turfgrass growers who are interested in growing and making available to the public, through certification, high quality seeds and propagating materials of superior varieties so grown and distributed as to insure genetic purity and identity. 

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Seed Certification

Certified seed is produced and increased under a limited generation concept that is supervised by GCIA. There are three classes of certified seed; foundation seed, registered seed, and certified produced.

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Turfgrass Certification

Turfgrass certification is unique to our program.  Most certification is with seeded crops. However, warm season turfgrasses are mostly hybrids which do not produce seed and are planted vegetatively.  

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Specialized Programs

Quality Assurance
IP Systems
Field Inspection

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News
June 27, 2022
UGA research farms open gates to the public this summer
Athens-area residents familiar with driving past two UGA CAES research farms will soon have the opportunity to go behind the scenes.
June 9, 2022
ITGAP visits Australia
AusGAP has provided a warm welcome to the International Turfgrass Genetic Assurance Program (ITGAP) administered by the Georgia Crop Improvement Association (GCIA).
Agricultural Audits, LLC

Agricultural Audits, LLC.Agricultural Audits, LLC provides GCIA's Good Agricultural Practices Program for Food Safety to verify that good agricultural practices were followed during production packing and shipping as well as GCIA's Organic Certification Program, committed to environmentally sound food production and healthy livestock and poultry production.

About GCIA

Georgia Certified

The Georgia Crop Improvement Association is an organization of seed producers who are interested in growing and making available to the public, through certification, high quality seeds and propagating materials of superior varieties so grown and distributed as to insure genetic purity and identity.

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Athens, Georgia 30605
Phone 706-542-2351    
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