Planter / drill

Beautiful canola furrow. Hope you get your rain you need

[furrowtickler]

Same seed lot , 45CS40 , 5.1 tkw
Seeded in same field .
160 with ole Bourgault, and 155 with planter

[farmaholic]

Well that's it! I saw a skip in the planter field. No planter for us. Ha.

Looks good. What was the TKW again on the field wit planter?

It wasn't the planter, it was cutworms!

[Braveheart]

Well that's it! I saw a skip in the planter field. No planter for us. Ha.

Looks good. What was the TKW again on the field wit planter?

[farmaholic]

Looks like 64 bu/ac to me! But I might be a bit early and overly optimistic!

[furrowtickler]

As of today, for those interested..
Here is our terrible, shitty canola seeded with our Bourgault.....4.7 lbs



And the canola with planter ... 2 lbs


Seeded same day .
Not saying the planter is the end all be all , just interesting at this point

20 year old 5710 worth near ZERO...seeded at 4.2 lbs/acre[ATTACH]1555[/ATTACH]

looks good fj , but probably worth more than our morris maxim . bourgault has better resale , lol

[fjlip]

20 year old 5710 worth near ZERO...seeded at 4.2 lbs/acre

Case. But tweety's point is you're only starting with 2.1 lbs. ...not alot of room for peril loses.

half the drills in the country will be lucky if half the seed grows this year so your back to square 1 .....

[sumdumguy]

Different soils and climate do better with varying seeding apparatus. History has taught us some lessons about the particular perils of flat land gumbo and dry spring conditions.

During the " dirty thirties" a lot of the topsoil blew away. Farmers were seeding with double disc press drills on pre-harrow-disced summerfallow. Consequently the very fine light soil particles were left on the surface and wind erosion was the result. In a couple of windy days the crop was cut right off by flying dirt. Southern Sask Ag then adopted the 24 inch one-way disc, average length of 9 feet. The seeder box held about 10 bushels of wheat. The heavy disc pulled up lumps to stop the blowing. Then from farmers' workshops came 15,18 and 20 foot long discers with18-20 inch dished discs on 6 inch spacing with mounted seed and fertilizer boxes. Producers devised ways to hook them together and four wheel drive tractors pulled 75 feet at our farm. In the 60's Jerome Bechard, with the use of a tow-behind tank and fan invented the air seeder on cultivator shovels. Various adaptations have been made to that idea. Lately the push has been to narrower and narrower openers until today we are seeing single disc openers that leave the fine dust on top - smooth and loose. The use of these drlls on light lentil stubble offers nothing to hold the soil down. This year we have witnessed the worst blowing that we have seen in our farming career. The spring rains never came until June 13 and May was hot and windy. Now many farmers have a pile of work trying to repair the damage to crops, fields and our beautiful drainage projects. So the wheels on the bus do go round and round. Man does not from history. High speed discing may be ok in other soil and weather conditions, but here in the Wascana Flats it can be very dangerous. I am interested in how Agrivillers feel about the evolution of seeding equipment and can only speak to gumbo conditions. MHO