It is proven that farmers that have their seed treated with a professionally applied dressing, reduce the need to spray a foliar treatment later in the season saving both time & money.
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Seed Dressing Services in SA’s Mid North & Balaklava regions
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Seed Dressing Services in SA’s Mid North & Balaklava regions
Farmers retain a certain amount of seed from the crop they have harvested for sowing the next season. These seeds are often un-treated. One of the best ways to get maximum returns on your efforts is by hiring a seed dressing expert.
Seed dressing refers to the application of natural trace elements and protective coatings, to guard against fungal infections, diseases & infestations by pests.
Untreated seeds are at risk to fungal diseases & pests & may serverly aaffect the overal outcome of the crop. Having your seed professionally treated can make all the difference to maximising your yield and ultimately that means dollars in your pocket.
Dressing your seed can help you to maximize your potential yield. Let us look at some of major advantages of dressing your seed professionally.
The following is a selection of the treatments we offer to help you protect your investment while potentially improving seed emergence and crop yields. We will consult with you to create a custom treatment to best fit your unique situation, crop, soil type, and other factors.
Benefits of Seed Dressing
Enhances the seed
Dressing the seed with various liquid trace elements can help to increasing the nutritional levels of the seed. Increased nutritional levels offer greater resistance to diseases. Improved levels of nutrition also help in faster emergence and better resistance to crop infections. Seeds that are treated with fortifying agents show higher percentage of germination, this in turn creates greater uniformity and dense crop dispersal.
Increased resistance to diseases
Applying a seed treatment to your seed may enhance its overall resistance to diseases. Diseased crops can spread the infection to other crops thereby affecting your overall yield.
Improved Vigour
Seed treatment experts can help you in the correct choice of seed treatments that will improve the vigour in seeds. Improved seed vigour in turn will lead to quicker germination and faster emergence. Plants that emerge faster tend to be fuller and more productive in comparsion to their untreated counterparts. It is also proven to give plants better resistance to fungal & insect problems.
Enhances the density of the crop
Dressing a seed empowers it to combat against deadly seedling diseases and other infections. It also improves vigour in seeds. All these factors ultimately contribute to enhanced density of plantations. Denser plantations mean higher yielding crops. In other words, farmers can get the benefit of maximum output if they treat their seeds before sowing.
Reduces the need of spraying
Eco-friendly
There’s a lot of talk about being eco friendly. Using a broadacre treatment after emergence does remove the destructive pests, however, any of the beneficial insects that assist the crop to its full potential, are also removed from the equation. It makes sense to have a seed dressing applied to combat any pre-emergence pests that may have detrimental consequences to your outcome.