New hopes for the environmentalists and conservationists – The United States’ native grass seed harvesting may now change the native grass seed market and help restore wildlands dramatically.
A better native grass seed harvester has been developed by Montana rancher and inventor Lee Arbuckle and his wife, Maggie with assistance from Montana Manufacturing Extension Center at Montana State University.
The harvester is a new-fangled plucker, which can harvest some native grass seed species easily. Arbuckle`s invention can not only handle many species, but also excels with difficult-to-harvest seed. Unlike the traditional way of cutting the grass with the seed head attached like a combine, Arbuckle`s Native Seedster skips the separation process and ‘plucks’ the seed!
Arbuckle said,
We`re going to change the economics of the native grass seed industry.
