White Planters

Not sure your budget or how many rows, but I'd start with a 6100 series and newer.  5100 was a lighter planter if you No till farm.  To change from corn to beans, remove bolt from plate, swap plates and tighten bolt down.  Real simple.  To run planter, do you have triple hydraulics or you can use a PTO pump to run the orbital that supplies air.  Takes like 3 or 4 gal/min for hydr on the air side, so really not a big deal if using older tractors.  Biggest thing is like any planter on wear--parallel links/blades etc.  Very popular planter in my area.  Kinze is probably the most used followed by white around my neck of the woods.   I prefer the packing wheels to be the double press type and not the single type.  Again my preference and I have schlagel packing wheels on. I also custom for a guy with his planter and has a kinze.  I also wanted to try a kinze, but after using his, I'm staying white.  You don't use graphite or talc in the white planter, and you sure get dirty quick with graphite which you need graphite with the finger pickup of the kinze.  Everything is black and hate getting that in the cab and on the steering wheel.  

I have a 5100 6 row and it's a fine planter but the 5100 sucks to get at the seed sensors and I hate the seed boxes and the covers and emptying seed from them and there is so darn much hitch weight with the White 5100. The Deere 7000 I think is easiest to set population but takes just a bit more maintenance. The cable used to lift the markers on the old 4 row was a bad idea from Deere. It would break every so often and was a pain to replace and both the Deere and White would pick up stones between the wheels and units. White had guards you could add to stop that, not sure if Deere did. The White did it far more often. Between the Deere and White and after running both I think I'd rather have the Deere over the White but people have their own preference.

Edited by Lonn - 22 Jan 2021 at 1:55am

Thanks for the comments guys.

Not sure what I'm going to do yet. I have a Deere planter now, and it is in pretty good shape for it's age, but it needs some TLC and needs an upgrade in it's seed meters, and that's going to cost. Have been considering going to liquid fertilizer vs dry. Also, need a combine in a year or 2, so would like to match rows.

My current planter is an 8 row, and has that Wetherell (sp?) end tow hitch, which does the job, but to be honest is a bit of a PITA. So....just looking. Thanks.

Tbone95, what model is your JD planter and what does it have for seed meters?

We have an 8200 series White planter, Id put it up against any other brand of planter. I have a Kinze as well for beans, and if the white was set up for 15" rows I'd use it instead.

Tbone95 wrote: My planter is. JD 7000, and has the plate meters. Am planning on( I think) Precision Planting retrofit.

Find a wing fold finger pick up 700 or 7200

We have a 12 row flex, center pivot Kinze 2300 for corn. Our bean planter is a Kinze 40" 2300 center pivot, flex with the 23 units spaced at 21 inches. The units are identical to the JD 7000. We like them both. Not sure I could ask for a better pair of planters for what we have in them.