Ray Harrington with the first “seed destructor” he built using an old cage mill.
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A more recent unit that is manufactured by de Bruin engineering.
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A relatively clean field of soybeans at harvest with some pigweed escape. It would be great if we could destroy these seeds before they hit the ground.
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A newer prototype of the seed destructor.
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A team from the University of Western Australia conducted a number of on-farm research trials to evaluate the effectiveness of the Harrington seed destructor. The results were impressive with greater than 90 per cent seed destroyed in the chaff of a number of different weed species.
