A seed meter for an agricultural planter, comprising: a meter housing including a seed housing; an opening for communicating seeds into said seed housing; a seed pool area for collection of said seeds near a bottom portion of said seed housing; and a seed disc (120, 320) rotatably mounted within said meter housing, wherein said seed disc (120, 320) has a seed side surface and a plurality of seed apertures (122, 322) disposed to rotate along a seed aperture path in a direction of travel, a portion of said seed aperture path is adjacent to said seed pool area, said seed disc (120, 320) further having a plurality of adjacently spaced cavities (128, 328) disposed on said seed side surface along said seed aperture path, each of said plurality of adjacently spaced cavities (128, 328) is defined by a cavity perimeter, each said cavity perimeter being larger than an outer perimeter of each of said seed apertures (122, 322), wherein a central axis of each of said seed apertures (122, 132) is normal to said seed side surface of said seed disc (120, 320), said central axis of each of said seed apertures (122, 322) disposed outside of each said cavity perimeter; characterised in that each said cavity perimeter includes: a rearward facing bevel (126, 326) of said cavity (128, 328) oriented to face away from the seed pool area as the seed disc (120, 320) rotates into the seed pool area, said rearward facing bevel (126, 326) disposed at an acute angle relative to said seed side surface; a forward-facing vertical sidewall (124, 324) of said cavity (128, 328) oriented to face said seed pool area as the seed disc (120, 320) rotates into the seed pool area; whereby, in operation, when a seed is released from one of said seed apertures (122, 322) while said seed disc (120, 320) rotates, said released seed falls downwardly toward the rearward-facing bevel (126, 326) of the preceding cavity (128, 328) such that said rearward facing bevel slidably transitions said released seed from said preceding cavity (128, 328). a meter housing including a seed housing; an opening for communicating seeds into said seed housing; a seed pool area for collection of said seeds near a bottom portion of said seed housing; and a seed disc (120, 320) rotatably mounted within said meter housing, wherein said seed disc (120, 320) has a seed side surface and a plurality of seed apertures (122, 322) disposed to rotate along a seed aperture path in a direction of travel, a portion of said seed aperture path is adjacent to said seed pool area, said seed disc (120, 320) further having a plurality of adjacently spaced cavities (128, 328) disposed on said seed side surface along said seed aperture path, each of said plurality of adjacently spaced cavities (128, 328) is defined by a cavity perimeter, each said cavity perimeter being larger than an outer perimeter of each of said seed apertures (122, 322), wherein a central axis of each of said seed apertures (122, 132) is normal to said seed side surface of said seed disc (120, 320), said central axis of each of said seed apertures (122, 322) disposed outside of each said cavity perimeter; characterised in that each said cavity perimeter includes: a rearward facing bevel (126, 326) of said cavity (128, 328) oriented to face away from the seed pool area as the seed disc (120, 320) rotates into the seed pool area, said rearward facing bevel (126, 326) disposed at an acute angle relative to said seed side surface; a forward-facing vertical sidewall (124, 324) of said cavity (128, 328) oriented to face said seed pool area as the seed disc (120, 320) rotates into the seed pool area; a rearward facing bevel (126, 326) of said cavity (128, 328) oriented to face away from the seed pool area as the seed disc (120, 320) rotates into the seed pool area, said rearward facing bevel (126, 326) disposed at an acute angle relative to said seed side surface; a forward-facing vertical sidewall (124, 324) of said cavity (128, 328) oriented to face said seed pool area as the seed disc (120, 320) rotates into the seed pool area; whereby, in operation, when a seed is released from one of said seed apertures (122, 322) while said seed disc (120, 320) rotates, said released seed falls downwardly toward the rearward-facing bevel (126, 326) of the preceding cavity (128, 328) such that said rearward facing bevel slidably transitions said released seed from said preceding cavity (128, 328).