Seed Treatment Systems Simply Breathtaking: Seed Treatment application equipment is advancing at a rapid rate nd retailers are the ones benefitting from the seed treating arms race

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IN the wild and wacky world of downstream seed treating equipment it is the various seed treatment products — actives, coatings and inoculants — rather than the capabilities or limitations of the actual equipment itself, driving the adoption of automated bulk systems at the retail level."Back when I started in seed treatment about 10 years ago, really the only products that were being consistently put on seed were basic fungicides and a low percentage of insecticides," says Jaco Van Der Westhuizen, seed treatment manager, Crop Production Services (CPS). "Today, there is no 'Messiah' seed treatment, it's more about combining multiple products. When you've got four, sometimes five different products going on, you're going to want to be as accurate as possible."