The machine has a suction funnel (12) attached to dosing elements (6) for dosing seeds. The dosing elements attached to a storage vessel (3) are arranged in an upper transverse row and a plane above the dosing elements attached to another storage vessel (4). A material guidance element (14) and another material guidance element are conveyed by the dosing elements to the suction funnel. The material guidance elements are arranged in a gap between the dosing elements arranged neighboring in a lower transverse row to each other.