In October, 2002, the United States enacted a new federal law known as the National Organic Program (NOP), which standardizes the requirements that growers must meet in order to grow crops that can be certified as "organic".

The NOP prohibits the use of "synthetically derived" materials when producing organically grown crops. Most all seed pellets currently contain one or more synthetically derived materials and cannot be used to grow organic crops.

NatureCoat^TM has gone through a review process by a non-profit, non-governmental group called the Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI). This group of people reviews the raw materials and processes used to create these raw materials, in order to verify that no material used in the process is synthetically derived. Then the pelleting process itself is reviewed for the same reasons.

Products that are allowed by OMRI are considered acceptable under the provisions of the NOP. NatureCoat^TM has gone through this rigorous review and has been approved for use by organic growers.

The pellet is a light density, melting pellet with a smooth white surface and excellent uniformity. The materials form a pellet with a high porosity for increased oxygen availability. It has been thoroughly tested and commercialized for use on carrot seed and should be approved for lettuce and onion shortly. We are also testing the pellet on tomato, pepper, broccoli and cauliflower.

All the tests thus far have shown that the quality of NatureCoat^TM is comparable to non-organic pellets currently on the market.

Click HERE to view the fact sheet on NatureCoat for carrot.