Graphite & Talc Powders - Improve Seeding Yields on the Farm

Graphite and Talc Powders: Increase Crop Yield Through Better Seed Planting. It is common practice in the mid-west and some other isolated regions to add graphite and talc powders to improve the performance of seed planters. When planting seeds in high humidity environments there's a tendency for the seeds to bridge in the hoppers and not flow consistently causing poor distribution of the seeds.It was unearthed that adding graphite to the seed in the hopper created improved flow and got rid of seed bridging in the hopper improving distribution and increasing crop yields. Also the graphite powder added lubrication to mechanical areas of the planter subjected to the seeds. Depending on the composition of the graphite powder, that's the graphite content, the larger content the greater lubrication and less wear from the ash content.

Ostarine (MK-2866) powder

Graphite is used in mechanical planters and the introduction of more complex planters in the mid-nineties using vacuum and optical seed sensors required an alternative additive which was talc powder.Talc powders performed exactly the same functions as graphite powders in preventing bridging, reducing wear on mechanical components and its chemical composition allowed its used in the newer planters introduced by John Deere, etc.The talc powders are sensitive to humidity levels and agglomerate easily which may be an issue when utilized in the early morning or during rainy conditions. It's been overcome with the addition of some graphite powder to the talc which improves the powder flow with no negative effect on the newer planters.

he packaging of the powders has evolved to generally meet application conditions since the early cans were difficult to utilize in windy conditions and the black graphite powders sometimes would blow back on the operators. The introduction of pourer cans and 5lb jugs has eliminated that problem.Wilmar Graphite Company, who the writer works for, now makes less than case quantities designed for Talc Powder and 80-20 Talc Graphite Powder, Slide Coat Graphite and Clean Deck Graphite, in order to enable individual farms to get direct. Information is available

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