Throughout our annual travels around the country, CropLife magazine’s editors have often come across ag retailers performing seed treatment for their grower-customers. Recently, we had the opportunity to visit two such operations in Iowa — Asmus Farm Supply in Rake and Heartland Cooperative in Dallas Center — and in the slideshow above we show how each handles seed treatment.
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These bags of Pioneer soybean seeds in the warehouse at Asmus Farm Supply can be treated by the company before being delivered to the grower’s fields.
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Asmus Farm Supply utilizes a KSi Conveyor system in its seed treatment operation.
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Asmus Farm Supply employs a Gustafson seed treater from Bayer at its facility.
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Untreated soybean seed at Heartland Coop prepares to enter the seed treater.
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Soybean seed being treated at Heartland Coop.
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After the soybean seeds are treated, workers at Heartland Coop bag it for delivery to the grower-customers.