Effective immediately, INCOTEC, Integrated Coating and Seed Technology, Inc., in Salinas, California offers Splitkote Organic Lettuce, Splitkote Organic Carrot, and OnX Organic Lettuce coatings to the industry.  These new products conform to the rules of USDA's National Organic Program and have been approved by the California Crop Improvement Association. 

The organic products are available to Organic growers who use conventional or precision seeders and require coatings with excellent quality and size uniformity for use in their planting equipment.

OnX Organic Lettuce has been trialed in Coastal areas of California as well as Yuma, Arizona.  The product is comparable in performance to INCOTEC’s standard OnX Lettuce product.  This lettuce coating may also be combined with INCOTEC’s Organic priming and marketed as OnX Special Organic.

Splitkote Organic has been used extensively in Europe.  With organic certification of materials, INCOTEC US is now able to offer this product to customers in the NAFTA region.  INCOTEC US will begin by offering a 13.0 belt size pellet on lettuce, with and without Organic priming.  Also offered will be a 13.0 and 11.5 belt size pellet on carrot. 

Suzie Yamanishi, IPR Manager in the US states, “We are very excited at INCOTEC US to be able to rapidly expand our Organic product range and offer more Organic products to our customers”.  She states “in the near future, we will be offering Splitkote Organic across a large number of species in various pellet sizes.”  INCOTEC’s research department has a lighter pellet formulation under development that should be available in the fall of 2004.

INCOTEC is a worldwide leader in coating and seed technology serving the vegetable, ornamental and agronomic seed business.  For more information about INCOTEC, go to www.incotec.com.