Planter / drill

[biglentil]

You have to wonder how big biotechs will react to 2lb seed rates. We know they will never accept the profit haircut. Raising the cost per bag will drive away the low tech customers. I imagine they will go to license fee scheme where the cost of seed is nominal.

[WiltonRanch]

This discussion reminds me of Les Henry's quote "there's more in the farmer than the farm" sic. Give an idiot the best drill and they can still **** it up. Then there's the guy running a bunch of old junk but takes care and yields with the best. Dry weather shows who take care no matter the rig.

[furrowtickler]

Not when you walk out into it and factor in bugs or frost . 1.5 would be my cut off under perfect seeding conditions. 2 lbs is more than enough for most situations from what I see this year. Time will tell next year . Things can change

hard to tell in a pic , but, looks like 1# is more than enough ?

Ya our canola last year struggled with all kinds of those issues plus a screw up with the ole drill. Was not pretty to look at for most of the summer but turned out ok.
As long as you can keep it clean it will be ok. Canola is a very elastic crop

wow , that's unreal , furrow . thanks for the pics ! we sure could use one of those on our farm . we seed 4.2 #/ac , definetely doesn't look like that

[furrowtickler]

Ya our canola last year struggled with all kinds of those issues plus a screw up with the ole drill. Was not pretty to look at for most of the summer but turned out ok.
As long as you can keep it clean it will be ok. Canola is a very elastic crop

[farmaholic]

Furrow, after what didnt germ(or did and dried out)frost took, insects chewed, wind pummeled, my seeding rate was probably equivelant to much less than the intended rate. ......but looks nothing like your pictures.

[furrowtickler]

Seed rate trial ....
1 lb / ac


1.5 lbs / ac


2 lbs / ac

[furrowtickler]

Yes the monitor shows singulation on each row . You can change each row to what ever seed population you want .
Same with the liquid phos which also has individual row shut off.
It will be interesting to get more corn acres next year with it and be able to experiment with it a bit more.

[furrowtickler]

Thanks for the pictures dalek . Looks very good .
We also have a 8 row JD 7000 and a 12 row JD 7200 . They both work pretty good.
This was the first chance I had to go look at the job the Horsch did myself.
The is a multitude of settings to work with . Once he got going with it a few passes he had it dialed in much better.
Was interesting to see how the individual row shut off worked in corners.
Zero overlap was good to see compared to the ole deers .
I have heard nothing but good things about White planters . They look very well built as well .