Soybean Seed Treatment Made Easy
28 Jul 242m 42s

At the 2024 Matt Miles Field Day, Damian Mason looks at a cost-effective soybean seed treatment option that eliminates the need for in-furrow application and expensive seed treatment facilities.

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00:00 Do you plant soybeans? Do you treat your soybeans? You know what? Sometimes it's expensive proposition. 00:05 We might have an option for you. Eric Kellum here with American Southern Agriculture, he's a representative for Mari stem, 00:09 has some pretty cool stuff. This is a hopper throttle technology. And one of the cool things that they did with this was, 00:15 if you don't have in furrow on your planter, this can sort of cut that need for that and, and saves you some money. 00:22 And you said, you know what else it did, Damien, it made it so that now you don't have to have a seed treatment 00:27 facility on your property or pay somebody to treat your seed. So what am I looking at? So right now, like you said, Damien, to be able 00:32 to treat your seed, not have to run in furrow, but also the metal axle and the pre-fight that are in the, the new first loop pal. 00:39 So you have the option of being able to add these two, treat your naked soybeans so you don't have to have a seed treatment on the 00:45 Eric, I wanna show the viewer what we're talking about here. So basically this is a bucket of tack talc, right? 00:50 T Drop. This is a bucket of tacked off, right? So I need this to go in my planter. And then what do we got here? 00:55 You got six, six bio capsules here. So these all hold the live microbials and it also holds your inoculate for your soybeans. 01:01 And then the metal axle and the pre-fight, the, the, the button configurations can be changed, but you have your consortia biology, your ether, 01:08 which is your enzyme technology. You also have your teum. Okay. So what happens is this stays on the top 01:14 and then when I'm ready to, to put, to feed my planter, I just pull this off, pop that, and all the contents in that little foil packet, 01:21 go down in there and mix with the talc, Pull the top and let her drop. And when you pop these, you wanna shake it up real good. 01:27 You want to put air into that talc graphite? Yep. I dump in my seed box and I'm ready to dump it in your Yeah. Bulk pro box, 01:32 whatever You want. Okay. You said, so basically this is a seed treatment. So instead of me taking, you know, a, a huge shuttle 01:39 of soybeans and saying run that through the seed treater, this does it. That's Right. So you can do it 01:43 all. So as an independent ag dealer and also my family farms, it makes it real easy for us to do it on the spot. 01:49 We don't have to have any special seed treatment run through seed treater. It also gives us some other options to 01:53 Run it. What if I have the capability of seed treatment, do I still need this or do I need this? So 01:56 The seed treatment is, is, is key in a lot of areas. The timing is critical too, if you're planting early versus late. 02:03 But I will say that there's no way to deliver the biologicals, the omes. Okay. And, and everything that's in that bucket 02:09 with the micros included with the tout graphite in any other way, you really want it on the seed. 02:14 You wanna be able to effectively coat the seed and, uh, this, this is the best way we found to do it. Got it. So soybean treatment, 02:21 seed treatment option in addition to getting biologicals and some other stuff to feed my, 02:25 my soybeans that I'm planting. So if I don't have a soybean seed treater, this is an option that's an option. 02:30 And it also gives me the other stuff to get the plants out to the right start. Yes sir. His name's Eric Kellum. 02:34 I'm David Mason coming at you from Matt Miles Field Day 2024.