News & Articles
Mark Majerus’ New Grass Book Now Available
Press Release (December 2009)
Announcing Demonstration of the Native Seedster FH-2
Press Release (July 2009)
Introducing the New Seedster SP
Press Release (2009)
News Article
May, 2009
Billings-made harvester designed for native grasses
Lee Arbuckle, was stumped. He was trying to harvest green needle grass seed on his family ranch near Alzada, but his socks were doing a better job of collecting the wild seed than his farm equipment. ...
News Release
June 29, 2008
Native Seedsters, Inc. Announces Two New Seedster Models the FH-2 and the FH-3
News Release
June 25, 2008
News Release
June 10, 2008
Native Seedsters, Inc. Announces New Employee Tony Arbuckle Computer Systems Manager.
News Release
June 10, 2008
News Release
June 06, 2008
Prairie Star
April 11, 2008
Retired ranchers introduce 2008 model of grass seed harvester
BILLINGS, Mont. - Lee and Maggie Arbuckle are unveiling a new model of their grass seed harvester this May.
“It completely integrates seed plucking, conveyance and collection in one unit on the front . . .
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
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KMVY News 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
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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.
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
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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 . . .