POP-ST™
Prescriptive On-Planter Seed Treater
POP-ST™ empowers farmers to enhance yield protection through their choice of traditional or innovative biological and regenerative solutions, delivered real-time at planting.
Solution
The biological seed treatment market is rapidly expanding. With increased desire to sustainably improve per-acre performance on the farm, new technology is needed to enable yield-protecting green solutions to optimize farmers’ ROI.
Inflexion Point Technologies has created a new prescriptive on-planter seed treater technology — POP-ST™ — that enables a broader spectrum of biological and other niche seed treater to be prescriptively applied over-the-top of already treated seed. This additive technology enables more valuable technologies to be applied to seeds than is currently possible.
POP-ST™ is the first planter technology that adjusts product types and amounts to suit each management zone.
How it Works
POP-ST™ enables prescriptive seed treatment by allowing farmers to vary the products and rates of those products so they can be optimized for each agronomic zone. The POP-ST™ solution increases farmer’s seed treatment choice and return on investment by allowing farmers to both customize their seed treatment products to their agronomic zones and decrease input costs by only using those products where they bring the most value.
AgTech Game Changer
Prescriptive On-Planter Seed Treater (POP-ST™) enables precision application delivered directly from the planter to each seed in the most sustainable and flexible method.
POP-ST™ is an additive system that works with all key planters and crops. It is designed to be added as an upgrade to existing planters and integrated into the manufacturing process of new planters.
On-Planter: Agriculture continues to drive for greater levels of sustainable practices, while improving yield and adhering to regulatory requirements. By being on-planter, POP-ST™ applies seed treatment real-time to each seed during planting, which is optimal for biological viability, planting day flexibility and pollinator exposure to insecticides.
Seed Treatment: By spraying the precise amount of seed treatment in the same range as used in current treating methods, POP-ST™ delivers treatment directly to each seed, thereby increasing treatment efficacy, and consistency. This is different than in-furrow applications, which typically require application of a significantly greater amount of materials in the furrow to ensure inputs are effective.
In Furrow
POP-ST™
Conventional Seed Treatment
Conventional seed treatments are limited in their number of options, and don’t have a viable means for prescriptive seed treatment applications. New technology is needed to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability of seed treatment application.
Disadvantages Include
Not Customizable
Limits Biological Seed Treatment Options
Seed Space Limitation
Minimal Options for Niche Seed Treatments
Limited Options
Less Farmer Choice and Flexibility
Reliance on Chemical Seed Treatments
Increased Chemical Footprint
POP-ST™
Prescriptive On-Planter Seed Treater Technology (POP-ST™) enables prescriptive seed treatment by allowing farmers to customize their products and apply them on-demand at optimal combinations and levels to each seed, within each management zone.
Advantages Include
Tailored Treatments
Managed Agronomic Zones
Optimized Products & Rates
Improved Accuracy of Application
Enables Niche Seed Treatments
Reduce Chemical Footprint
Increases Farmer Choice and Flexibility
Improve Farmer ROI
Expanded Biological Options
Avoids Pre-application of Insecticides