Mechanical Assessments of Seed Treatment Amendments are an important tool to determine how those products are going to perform in commercial applications.  Dust off testing is used to measure the amount of free floating particles and abrasion particles or the dust created by mechanically stressing the seed.  Plantability and flowability tests are used to determine how the seed treatments will act as they flow through a planter or other device.  We also use loading rate analysis to ensure that the amount of active products are applied to the seed correctly and this tool can be used with the dust off testing to ensure that those active products are staying on the seed.