This practical book is based on the author's lifetime experience of crop seed production systems worldwide, particularly in developing countries as a consultant to UN FAO. The text is highly readable with avoidance of too much jargon and covers a wide range of temperate and tropical cereals, grasses, forage and grain legumes, oil seeds, forage crucifers, quinoa and grain amaranths. A consistent style is used to provide seed crop agronomy and harvesting information for each species. A particularly useful feature is a list of possible seed-borne pathogens for each crop. This crop-specific information is preceded by a six-chapter section on principles (variety authenticity, isolation and fertilisation, seed harvesting, processing, storage, testing, distribution). This section is commendably broad in scope, but does overlap with the author's Vegetable Seed Production (3rd edition, 2009), while the overall contents are similar to parts of Encyclopaedia of Seed Production of World Crops (co-authored with A. Fenwick Kelly, 1998). This repetition is necessary in order to provide an introductory, stand-alone text for those new to seed production – particularly those joining the agricultural seed industry – whether as members of multinational commercial or local not-for-profit organisations. Moreover, at less than one-fifth of the cost of the 1998 text, it is clearly far more accessible to that market. On its own, Agricultural Seed Production is unlikely to satisfy as an honours degree-level text, but its wide scope, further reading lists and extensive reference list provide a robust initial framework for self-directed learning.