Patent ID: 7869902

Claim:
A method of treating at least a portion of an initial seed sample to create one or more treated seed samples, the method comprising: inputting or scanning via an input device identification data associated with the initial seed sample and communicating the identification data to at least one controller; distributing at least a portion of the initial seed sample to a seed treater of a seed treatment apparatus; applying at least one seed treatment material to the portion of the initial seed sample distributed to the seed treater; and controlling the seed treatment apparatus with the at least one controller for applying the at least one seed treatment material to the portion of the initial seed sample distributed to the seed treater, wherein the controller controls the seed treatment apparatus at least in part according to one or more instruction sets associated with the identification data of the initial seed sample to create the one or more treated seed samples, and wherein the step of distributing at least a portion of the initial seed sample to a seed treater comprises: distributing at least a portion of the initial seed sample to a metering station; distributing at least a portion of the portion of the initial seed sample from the metering station to the seed treater; and quantifying the portion of the initial seed sample distributed by the metering station with a quantifying device, wherein the quantifying step comprises determining a seed sample count of the number of seeds in the initial seed sample distributed by the metering station, and wherein the step of applying at least one seed treatment material to the portion of the initial seed sample distributed to the seed treater is based at least in part on the seed sample count.