News & Articles

 

MBRCT
March 2008

Innovative Native Seed Harvester
Lee and Maggie Arbuckle and colleagues at Native Seedsters, Inc. (NSI) used rapid prototyping techniques to . . .

 

 

USDA - SBIR Impact
2008

Montana’s Native Seedsters, Inc. Achieves Commercial Success
Native grass is important for the restoration or reclamation of burned, mined, or otherwise disturbed lands, and the native seed industry . . .

 

 

Farm Show
January 2008

"Seedster" Harvests Difficult Crops
The Seedster’s advanced capabilities derive from Lee Arbuckle’s discovery of patented counter-rotating brush and combs to ‘pluck’ seed with low percentage of impurities. The remaining plant is intact as . . .

 

 

KULR Television January 12, 2008 Interview by Kyle Midura of KULR Television in the segment of “The Spirit of Montana,” aired January 12, 2008. Interviewed Lee & Maggie

 

 

KMVY News December, 2007 Interview by Kelton Hatch of the Idaho Department of Fish & Game aired on KMVT News, Jerome, ID, aired December 16, 2007. Interviewed Lee on the sagebrush seed harvester demo that took place in Burley, ID.

 

Outdoor Report September, 2007 Interview by Mike Gurnett with the Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks aired August, 2007. Interviewed Lee & Maggie

 

Inside Your Turf, Golf Course Management
March, 2007

Native Ingenuity
At many golf courses in the United States, superintendents seeking to conserve water and curtail maintenance costs have created naturalized areas by planting native grass and wildflower seed . . .

 

 

The Western Producer
March 22, 2007

Big time technology on small farm
When Montana rancher Lee Arbuckle set out to develop a new method for harvesting native grass seed, he accepted the fact that patience had never been one of his virtues.

Arbuckle knew what farmer-inventors go through. He made up his mind . . .

 

 

ICCHP (International Conference on Crop Harvesting & Processing)
February 11-14, 2007

Plucking Difficult-to-Harvest Native Grass Seed
Annually millions of acres of grass lands are restored with sustainable native species for erosion control, to provide forage for livestock and wildlife, and to reclaim . . .

 

 

KULR Television February, 2007 Interview by Arianne Rapkoch of KULR Television in the segment of “The Spirit of Montana”, aired February, 2007. Interviewed Lee & Maggie.

 

 

Farm Show
January 2007

"Seedster" Vacuums Up Native Grass Seed
"Our Seedster seed harvester plucks the seed from the seed head with almost no chaff," says Lee Arbuckle. "The plant is left intact for wildlife cover and soil protection." . . .

 

 

The Kiplinger Agriculture Letter
November 2006

 

A Better Harvester for Grass Seed
It strips seeds from grass with a spinning brush and comb, leaving the grass standing. The machine, built in Montana and called the Arbuckle Native Seedster, is designed . . .

 

 

USDA
News from MSU - October 2006

Inventor Helps Grasslands Go Native
Montana rancher and inventor Lee Arbuckle may soon change the nation's market for native grass seed, a tricky-to-harvest crop worth hundreds of millions . . .

 

 

 

Ecological Restoration
June 2006

New Seed Harvester Eases Collection of Difficult-to-Harvest Native Grass and Forb Seed
One of the principal means of restori ng native plant communities is planting of grass, forb, and shrub species . . .