{"id":703559,"date":"2026-05-30T10:42:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/703559\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T10:42:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:42:05","slug":"ista-2026-seed-testings-biggest-annual-event-is-heading-to-calgary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/703559\/","title":{"rendered":"ISTA 2026: Seed Testing&#8217;s Biggest Annual Event\u00a0is Heading\u00a0to Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the interview above, International Seed Testing Association (ISTA) Secretary General Andreas Wais shares what\u2019s ahead for this year\u2019s gathering in Calgary, Canada, including discussions around international seed movement, rule harmonization, AI and imaging technologies, laboratory collaboration, and the future of global seed testing standards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you work in seed testing, seed laboratories, quality assurance, certification, trade, or regulatory affairs, this conversation explains why you should put Calgary on your calendar this June.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seedtest.org\/en\/annual-events\/ista-annual-meeting-2026-product-10096.html\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.seedtest.org\/en\/annual-events\/ista-annual-meeting-2026-product-10096.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ISTA 2026 Annual Meeting\u00a0| Calgary, Alberta, Canada\u00a0| June 22\u201325, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the interview above, International Seed Testing Association (ISTA) Secretary General Andreas Wais shares what\u2019s ahead for this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[53629,49,2798,48,1048,56,255920,13964,3194],"class_list":["post-703559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-associations","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada","tag-events","tag-industry","tag-seed-health","tag-seed-world-canada","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}