Multi-Seed Pellets For Pollinator Habitat Restoration

MSP™ For Pollinator Comeback

Kannar Earth Science, Ltd. is the exclusive licensee and commercial developer of Cornell’s patent-pending Multi-Seed Pellet (MSP) technology created to help revitalize pollinator habitat on a large scale.

MSP technology inserts irregularly shaped milkweed or other wildflower seeds into pellets that are similar in size to common row crop seeds like soybeans and compatible with standard row crop or grain drill planting equipment. MSP can be further optimized with bio-stimulants, disease protection, and fluency aids for mechanized planting.

Simpler Planting For Pollinators

Here wildflower and milkweed seeds surround much larger seeds compatible with automated planting equipment. Without MSP, planting milkweed and wildflowers is labor-intensive, expensive, and less effective.

From left to right: Corn, soy, peanut, and cotton seeds. These cover millions of acres. 

MSP shown on the far right is similar in size and shape. 

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Untreated Seed

Patent-pending MSP technology

Pellets are planted using typical row crop planters or grain drills (heavy duty inter-planters are best for planting into native grasses). 

Initiative is ideal for marginal farmland acres, conservation land, right of ways, interstate medians, forestry buffers, honey production acres, and more. 

Growers profit from increased yields, conservation incentives, agritourism.

Help achieve ESG goals.

Plant biodiversity is healthier source of carbon capture compared to mono-agriculture

InterSeeder No-till drill  

Vacuum Planter

Timelines

Spring 2024

Fall 2024

  • MSP planted in test sites between February and April. Ground prepped with mowing, discing, and/or burndown herbicides followed by MSP pellets planted at shallow depth.
  • Emergence expected within 4 weeks. Dormancy breaker is included. 
  • Data collected for rate of emergence, number of milkweed stems per acre in year one.
  • MSP planted in test sites between October and January. Ground prepped with mowing, discing, and/or burndown herbicides followed by MSP pellets planted at shallow depth or air dropped to inaccessible terrain. 
  • Emergence expected during spring.
  • Data collected for rate of emergence, number of milkweed stems per acre.

On-farm trials planned in Canada, USA, and Mexico in collaboration with Corteva Agriscience.

Kannar Earth Science

Grow With Our KP3™ Network

Our Kannar Pollinator Partnership Program (KP3™) matches science and industry experts to foundations, corporations, and individual landowners ready to grow pollinator habitat with MSP economically and efficiently.
 
If you are a local and native seed provider, agronomist, or grower, contact us to learn more about joining KP3 and meeting the demand for habitat restoration.  
 
If you are an institutional investor, foundation, grant recipient, or conservationist with ambitious goals for establishing pollinator habitat, we invite you to learn how to join KP3 to find innovative and pre-screened products and providers. We can offer planning advice, tools, and even full-service establishment options for your project.  
 
Let KP3 connect people for pollinators!

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MSP™ and KP3™ are trademarks belonging to Kannar Earth Science, Ltd.

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