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Most state laws require field corn seed to have a tag on each bag stating the percentage of viable (live) seeds and the germination of those viable seeds. In addition, most seed tags will state how much foreign matter is in the bag.
Seed germination is often above 90%, and viable seeds are often above 95%. Foreign matter is often less than 0.05%.
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