How can a grower get his or her crops WWHAM certified?
• Below are the general guidelines for getting your field WWHAM-certified: • An approved inspector must inspect a field prior to, but no sooner than, ten days before harvest. • To comply with minimum standards, at the time of cutting (hay) or harvesting (for grain, in the case of straw), your field may not contain any mature seed heads or propagating parts of any noxious weeds from the WA state list or the North American list. To meet the standards, your field may not contain any listed noxious weeds during inspection. To exceed these standards, your field may not have any listed noxious weeds or any annual or unlisted weeds. • Any WWHAM-trained Inspector, typically a participating County Noxious Weed Coordinator and/or their employees will inspect the perimeter of the field and the interior of the field for the presence of North American and Washington State Noxious Weeds, using various patterns depending on the field shape and size. • If your field passes inspection, the Inspector wi
