Safe Start PowerPoint Presentation

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Carbon Seed Treatment
for
Grass Seed Plantings
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Objective

• Safe-Start improves productivity on an already
  well-understood and old technology, and there is
  no other means for a comparable result.
• Features
• Improved safening, plus.
• Improved yields,
• Diversification of results, from a
• Safe, non-toxic, natural product.

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Customer Requirements

• Moreover herbicide safety, Safe Start improves
  productivity and tolerance to environmental
  stress
• Herbicide toxicity
• Salt stress
• Wilt stress
• Diseases
• Low fertility (Nitrogen)
• Minor nutrient deficiencies

Charcoal
Safe- Start
Improved Herbicide Safety
Dealer
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Meeting the Needs

• Safe-Start improves herbicide safety to reduce
  liability while improving productivity for your
  customer.
• Because Safe-Start has limited distribution your
  including it in a program adds additional reasons
  for your grower to do business with you while
  maintaining or increasing market share.

Grower
Dealer
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2000 Greenhouse testing
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2000 Greenhouse testing
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2001 Field Testing
Probability 92
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Mean of all pesticide treatments

• Carbon allows an 8.56 reduction in stand count
  on average.
• Higher rates of Safe-Start increase stand while
  lower rates of Safe-Start slightly decrease
  stand. However, not statistically significant,
  and not to a greater extent than carbon.

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Field Testing
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Cost Analysis

• Safe-Start replaces one half of Charcoal and
  costs the same.

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Key Benefits

• Additional safety and spread of liability
• Improved productivity
• Diversification of results
• Limited distribution
• A new reason to talk about a very old technology.