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Amherst WI | I’m a dealer with a treater and I don’t want to be painted with that broad brush you have going there because that’s not the case everywhere.
I tell my customers that if they plant early they better treat, if it’s later then it probably doesn’t pay. I’d guess 90% of them still choose to treat. On my own farm I treat about 2/3. Early stuff is treated and later stuff is inoculant only.
While I use name brand treatment I’m less than upstream treated seed by $4 a unit and that includes the inoculant. So much for trying to get guys into higher dollar treatment.
If treatment is under applied I retreat it, and that’s happened more than once when a valve is shut off and forgotten about.
The entire soybean seed industry profit margin sucks for the dealer. Yes there is more profit in the treatment than the bean seed itself but there is also more profit in selling a 50# bag of oat seed than there is for a $50-$60 unit of soybeans which is absolutely ridiculous considering how early they want us to take seed and how much room it takes up.
So I ask again, don’t paint everyone with the same broad brush. If all your seed dealers are crooked than that’s not the case everywhere. | |
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Treating your own soybean seed
