SEED TERMINATOR AS REPORTED IN THE NEWS & MEDIA
December 2024
Australian Made Bisalloy Wear Steel Spotlight
Case Study featuring Seed Terminator
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May-June 2025
GRDC Groundcover
Family enterprise grows with new energy and ideas: That has seen the recent purchase of a Seed Terminator to crush weed seeds, adding another element to weed control and moisture conservation.
“We’re conserving moisture year after year by keeping ground cover from the previous harvest and we’re spraying for summer weeds.”
September-October 2024
GRDC Groundcover
Rodents, on the other hand, have been pretty good this year and we haven’t had to bait. It might be a flow-on effect of our Seed Terminator pulverising weed seeds and reducing their food source. It shows how dynamic our industry is. No two years are the same and you just learn to adapt.
January-February 2024
GRDC Groundcover
Weeds challenge sparks search for non-herbicide tools: Mitch Henderson uses multiple tactics to manage weeds on his family’s farms near Berriwillock, Wilkur, Brim and Werrimull in Victoria.
The 33-year-old and his family deploy different tactics to delay the onset of herbicide resistance.
In 2021, after using narrow windrow burning for several years, the Hendersons bought two Seed Terminators to kill herbicide-tolerant weed seeds at harvest.
November-December 2023
GRDC Groundcover
Annual ryegrass targeted for termination in every crop: South Australian grower Tim Williams and his family, who crop just over 1100 hectares near Conmurra, invested in a Seed Terminator for their John Deere S760 harvester seven years ago.
With annual ryegrass, wild oats and bedstraw the top three weeds in the Williams family’s continuous wheat/barley/faba bean farming system, Tim says they opted to move into harvest weed seed control to delay the onset of herbicide resistance.
September 2024
ABC News
SA farmer and engineer creates farm machinery to destroy weed seeds during harvest. Industry Growth Program from the federal government has given a $3.1 million grant.
September 2024
InnovationAus.com
Growth grant propels SA AgTech into global market. Four early stage companies have been awarded $4M in grants under Albanese government’s commercialisation program, with SA AgTech Seed Terminator landing $3 million.
August 2024
Farm Weekly
New Seed Terminator Pro 1000 to debut at Dowerin Machinery Field Days.
February 2024
Farm Machinery
Weed control system now available for John Deere’s X9 series combine harvesters.
September 2023
New Holland Agriculture
Agritechnica 2023: New products and innovations from New Holland.
September 2023
New Holland Agriculture
New Holland combine news at Agritechnica: CR & CX updates presented.
September 2023
New Holland Agriculture
New Holland combines will be equipped with Seed Terminator technology.
November 2022
WSU Insider
Australian professor shares herbicide resistance knowledge during WSU visit.
“When I see weeds in paddocks when harvesting, I lower the front and chase them so that the mills smash the weed seeds into dust”
- Damien Schneider
Successful Farming
Use these strategies to complement herbicides for harvest weed seed control
June 2022
@AuManufacturing
Celebrating Australian Made: Local Ingenuity Walloping the World's Weeds.
“What I think is that the Seed Terminator limits a combines natural tendency to spread weeds around your field. The combine is our worst enemy when it comes to weeds because of the return system.”
- Josh Lade
July 2021
Extension University of Missouri
Mizzou Weed Science shares Seed Terminator research.
March 2021
Grain News
Is mechanical harvest weed seed control a good option for the Prairies?
January 2021
Successful Farming
Mizzou's weeds team evaluates the Weed Zapper and Seed Terminator.
December 2020
The University of Missouri
University of Missouri Research looks at technology to kill weeds.
“It seems crazy that we spend a lot of time and money killing weeds all year only to reward the survivors at harvest and spread them out so we have something to spray next year.”
- Peter Newman
“When tested at the University of Adelaide, the device was found to kill 96 to 100 percent of "notoriously" tough rye grass seeds.”
- University of Adelaide
January 2019
Real Agriculture
Options for weed seed control at harvest expanding for Canadian farmers.
“The Seed Terminator ticks all the environmental boxes – it can’t be a bad thing to reduce chemicals, reduce burning and reduce costs for a farmer.“
- Mark Ashenden
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