Seed Today - Q1 2008 - (Page 7) (left) Erik Jenson and Karla Heisz oversee the gravity separator used for small size seed lots. (above) Rob Llewellyn weighs a bulk seed order. Agrecol produces over 3.5 million native wildflower, legume and sedge plants a year. Native species seed distributed by Agrecol is raised on farmland surrounding Evansville, about 40 miles southeast of the company’s Madison office. Seed plot sizes range from less than an acre to 50 acres or more for common prairie grasses such as the blue stems, and switchgrass. Agrecol produces about 135 native ecotype species. Getting commercial quantities of seed from perhaps only a teaspoonful of originally collected seeds is an intense process. “We begin by growing the seeds in our greenhouse. The yield from this first ‘crop’ is often variable. It is not like planting seed corn where you might expect 100 percent germination,” says President Mark Doudlah. “Eventually we get a quantity we can sell. Determining a selling price is also a challenge as there is little or no market information on which to base the price of some species we commercialize. There is certainly no Board of Trade to set the price for native seeds,” Doudlah comments. seeds both come in a variety of sizes, shapes and densities. Some seeds are harvested as seed, others are harvested seed, stem and all. Some are harvested by the ton, others by the pound or ounce. There is no one-size-fits-all native seed harvester. For some seeds, a traditional combine will do just fine. Other seeds are harvested with a stripper. Still others are harvested by the best implement that the welders in the machine shed can conjure. “Finding the best methods of harvesting and cleaning some of these species often depends on the artisanship of our shop people,” says Rob Walker, Agrecol’s farm manager. Most of the seed must be dried prior to cleaning. Seed harvested with large amounts of plant material is dried in 250 sq. ft. open-top aerated compartments inside the Evansville conditioning facility. After drying, a skid loader is used to move the seed/plant material to Harvesting and Conditioning Harvesting native seeds is nothing if it is not a challenge. The plants and Rob Llewellyn prepares a customer’s order for a custom blend of native seeds. First Quarter 2008 7
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