Conventional

The following is a list of seed applied crop protection treatments that are available upon request. Some of the crop protection seed treatments listed may not be registered for sale or use in all states or counties. Please check with your local extension service to ensure registration status before ordering.

Species availability:
Broccoli, Cabbage, Cantaloupe, Carrot, Cauliflower, Celery, Cucumber/Gherkin, Jalapeno, Leek, Lettuce, Melon, Onion/Shallot, Parsley, Parsnip, Pea, Pepper, Pumpkin, Radish, Squash, Swiss chard, Tomatoes, Watermelon

Emergis is a process that helps improve the speed of germination, provides a more uniform emergence, and promotes earlier and stronger plant establishment.

Species availability:
Arugula, Broccoli, Cabbage, Cantaloupe, Carrot, Cucumber/Gherkin, Endive, Escarole, Gherkin, Jalapeno, Lettuce, Onion/Shallot, Parsley, Parsnip, Pepper, Radicchio, Radish, Spinach, Tomatoes

Nutrient filmcoat to boost your crop’s potential

Filmcoat elite is a scientifically formulated seed filmcoat designed to enhance early plant development with nutrients incorporated into the filmcoat. This advanced filmcoat promotes more robust seedlings, leading to better root mass and vigorous growth. For precision planters, Filmcoat elite is also available as a pellet!

Key benefits

Carrot trial success

Field trials planted with carrot seed treated with filmcoat elite, compared to raw have delivered favorable trial results. The treatment enhances root crop development, which is crucial for efficient harvesting and overall yield improvement. Some carrot trials experienced yield increases in yield, ultimately offering a ROI for the grower. Learn more about our seed treatments for carrots.

Control vs. Filmcoat elite on carrots

Total Yield per 9ft Control vs. Filmcoat elite

Dense canopy growth to protect jalapenos from sunscald

Commercial growers in Mexico are using Filmcoat elite to boost fresh market jalapeno plant vigor and canopy growth. This dense foliage protects the fruit from sunscald, leading to a more harvestable yield. Compared to seed treated with only thiram, trial data suggests that the jalapenos treated with nutrient rich filmcoat combined with thiram developed more roots, stronger plant structure, heavier plant weight, and more setting fruit. Trial data also reports that the crops experienced a continued onset of flowers after the first harvest providing additional harvest opportunities. Download Case Study

Filmcoat elite for carrots and jalapenos

Filmcoat elite offers tailored benefits for carrots and jalapenos, improving seedling growth and root development for a healthy field stand that may improve overall crop performance. Compatible with crop protection treatments such as Thiram, this is an upgraded filmcoat solution for healthier, more productive crops.

Maximize your seedling health

Contact us today to learn how this advanced film coat treatment can improve your field stands and yields.

Species availability:
Carrot, Jalapeno, Tomatillo

Species availability:
Arugula, Basil, Broccoli, Cabbage, Cantaloupe, Carrot, Cauliflower, Celery, Cucumber/Gherkin, Jalapeno, Kale, Leek, Lettuce, Melon, Onion/Shallot, Parsley, Parsnip, Pepper, Pumpkin, Radish, Spinach, Squash, Swiss chard, Tomatoes, Watermelon

Clean seed, pure & simple.

Gopure is a conventional seed disinfection treatment that uses a combination of processes and/or crop protection products that inhibit the growth of seed-borne pathogens, such as Pseudomonas spp. and Xanthomonas. Customizable to meet your field challenge, stack gopure with conventional fungicides for added protection from soil-borne pathogens. Also available for organic production. 

Key benefits

Yield is a primary focus when developing seed technologies. However, potential yield increases may be compromised without clean and healthy seeds. Seed-borne diseases are a significant issue that costs the seed industry and vegetable growers significant yearly revenue loss. Contact us to learn more about our seed disinfection services.

Seed disinfection treatment for carrots

Carrot overview

Bacterial leaf blight, otherwise known as Xanthomonas campestris pv. carotae, is a concern to carrot seed producers and growers in many regions of the world. The bacterium can survive on or in a carrot seed, spreading via the seed’s movement through the supply chain into the field. Planting healthy, clean seed is an essential first step for effectively managing bacterial leaf blight.

Carrot trial data

Tested on five carrot varieties, independent lab results conclude gopure is an effective solution for removing Xanthomonas from carrot seed without impacting germination or shelf life.

Third-party trial data

Tested on five carrot varieties, independent lab results conclude gopure is an effective solution for removing Xanthomonas from carrot seed without impacting germination or shelf life.

Click here to contact our commercial team for more information about our seed disinfection services.

Species availability:
Carrot

Minimize stress, maximize performance.

The early stages of any living organism are vital to future growth and development. Germains has developed a technology that focuses on early plant nutrition, even before the plant emerges, ensuring its success in variable growing conditions. Goseed maximizes the potential nutrient uptake of the seedling, offering many benefits to both the plant and the grower.

Key benefits

“After monitoring a few trials with control vs goseed, I have noticed an obvious difference in Emergence, Weight, and Yield.” Arturo Munoz, Romaine Harvest Manager at Ocean Mist

Desert lettuce trial

Germains conducted summer Heat Stress Trials and fall Value Justification trials for three consecutive years in Yuma, Arizona. The objective was to demonstrate the performance of Germains lettuce desert pellets versus our competitors.

Trial details

Number of lettuce varieties trialed: 6
Priming: Emergis
Pellets: Oxykote® & Propellet® Heavy + goseed
Compared with market standard desert primed and pelleted products

Visible trial results: Lettuce goseed improves uniformity and yield

Summary

Germains continue to deliver products that outperform competitors’ in early emergence and under high-temperature stress, leading to an increase in potential yield and benefiting the grower in the field. To improve emergence and overcome thermodormancy, goseed is an effective seed treatment solution.

Click here to order or request a field trial.

Species availability:
Lettuce

A tan, heavy, split-type seed pellet offering excellent plantability and uniform placement.

Species availability:
Endive, Escarole, Lettuce, Radicchio, Tobacco

A versatile white, heavy, melting seed pellet that allows rapid oxygen uptake, also known as propellet® heavy. Popular among leafy vegetable growers located in the Pacific Northwest and California growing regions.

Species availability:
Endive, Escarole, Lettuce, Radicchio

High-quality lightweight seed pellet, also known as propellet® light, is commonly used in coastal regions of California.

Species availability:
Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrot, Celery, Cucumber/Gherkin, Endive, Escarole, Jalapeno, Kale, Leek, Lettuce, Onion/Shallot, Parsnip, Pepper, Radicchio, Red Beet, Tomatoes

Optimize seeds per pound & precision planting

Take your planting precision to the next level with proflo, the seed encrustment coating designed to optimize seed size, weight, and singulation. Proflo helps your seeds flow smoothly through vacuum planters, reducing skips and doubles while maintaining the seed’s natural shape. This means better visibility in the soil and optimized accuracy for every planting.

Key benefits:

Proflo^® seed encrustment for onions

Achieve the perfect seed count accuracy for your onion crops, ranging from 55K to 95K (+/- 5K) seeds per pound, with proflo. Please note that the per-pound seed count specification is currently only available for onion seeds. Contact a Germains representative to inquire about new product development for other vegetable species.

Take action to achieve accurate field stands!

Elevate your planting results with proflo seed encrustment. Learn more about learn how proflo or seed pellets can improve your precision planting.

Species availability:
Carrot, Endive, Escarole, Lettuce, Marigold, Onion/Shallot, Parsnip, Radicchio

An upgrade to our standard seed encrustment, proflo precise, is a heavier build than our standard encrustment and designed to improve singulation and flow through precision planters that helps to increase planting speed. Initially formulated for baby leaf lettuce producers seeking to reduce the wear on planter sponges and improve precision planting accuracy.  Due to grower demand, proflo precise is now available for gherkin!

Species availability:
Cucumber/Gherkin, Gherkin, Lettuce

Upgraded pellet to improve seedling vigor.

Propellet elite is a targeted, precise approach for enhancing seed genetics for optimal seedling establishment. By adding essential micronutrients to the pellet, the seed’s radical begins to absorb nutrients as soon as it emerges, helping to strengthen the seedling root and foliage mass to withstand the field transplant process. This conventional seed pellet enables some growers to bypass transplanting and direct sow into the field to reduce transplant costs.

Key benefits

Improve seedling vigor in the greenhouse or field

Since 2014, propellet elite has continued to aid the successful establishment of thousands of acres of celery annually. Due to grower recognition of its beneficial properties and the need for cost-effective solutions to enhance seed performance in the greenhouse and in the field, the elite seed technology is available as a pellet or filmcoat for carrots, jalapenos, and tomatillos.

Propellet^® elite is an innovative seed pellet solution to a grower’s problem.

Propellet elite product development began with a single customer inquiry. A commercial celery grower was experiencing crop loss when transporting seedlings from the greenhouse to the field. The customer contacted Germains to see if a seed technology could be developed to improve celery seedling vigor and root mass for transplanting. Based on the grower’s circumstances, Germains’ Research and Development team customized an existing seed pellet by combining it with beneficial health products that deliver stronger roots and canopy vigor to improve the crop’s overall performance from transplant to harvest.

Ask a Germains representative for more information!

Species availability:
Carrot, Celery, Jalapeno, Tomatillo

Uniform stands, accurate spacing.

Prosun is a seed coating for sunflowers that provides added weight and a smooth, slick finish that enables sunflower seeds to flow smoothly through planters. Designed for precision air planters, Prosun seed coating helps growers achieve accurate field populations. Prosun pellets may be applied to raw or treated seeds.  Seed distributors may provide crop protection chemicals for application as a filmcoat during the coating process.

Key benefits

Germination and emergence trial result

No significant differences in germination or emergence were observed. Data represents four trials combined: NDSU REC’s Carrington & Minot 2017, 2018. Four varieties/seed fields were tested in each trial. Sizes within a seed lot originated from the same seed field. Seeds were counted equally between treatments and planted with a cone planter.

Precision Planting | Raw vs. prosun®

Skips and multiples trial results

Number per 100 feet of row. Data represent three trials combined. NDSU REC’s Carrington 2017, 2018, Minot 2018. Two varieties were tested in each trial. Sizes within a variety from the same seed field.

Improve Singulation Reduce Multiples Raw vs. prosun® 

Sunflower yield improvement

No differences in oil content, moisture, or test weight were observed. Data represent two varieties tested at each of the three trials. 2017-2018 NDSU Research Extension Center (REC), Carrington, ND, 2018 NDSU REC, Minot ND. All sizes from the same seed field. Revenue was calculated using an average NuSun selling price of $16.67, Enderlin, ND (Source: NSA Daily Market News). Learn more about our trials.

Accurate Spacing to Improve Yield Raw vs. prosun®

Added crop protection | Pretreated seed application

Prosun is a seed coating for sunflowers that may be applied to raw or treated seeds. Seed distributors may provide crop protection chemicals as a filmcoat during the coating process. Click here to contact a Germains representative to find out how to purchase.

*Not recommended for air seeders or finger planters

Species availability:
Sunflower, Sunflower