no till corn planter ?

is this a recomend no till planter ?

shameless dude wrote: i always check the seed with the plates, my bags this year showed I should use the B1 jd plate with the seed. said so right on the bag. you have to tell your seed rep what you want, not what they will just give you!

WHAT BRAND!?

You also said you did a terrible job planting, so….

Tell the seed rep, um, yes! But he doesn’t have much control over what they print on the bag.

I had pretty good luck with flat seed. Plate number was not on the bag, but with the weight, a couple of third party reference documents, and a careful test fit it was ok. Round seed is horribly varied in size from several seed companies where it used to work fine.

Now the headaches are officially over, and not going back. If given a choice I can’t understand why anyone would! But if good enough is good enough for you, by all means enjoy yourself.



Edited by Tbone95 - 30 Jun 2023 at 7:47am

I’ve got a really nice and simple to follow reference sheet. I’m trying to remember the name. If I can’t remember the name I’ll try and remember to take a picture of it. I have a few other references also but this one works the easiest and best. Stay tuned!

There’s probably close to 25 different plates for the old JD’s I’m familiar with, but a nice assortment of a half dozen or so would get you by. There are 16 cell and 24 cell, one of the reasons there’s so many. So you have number of cells, flat or round type seed, then kernel size.

Edited by Tbone95 - 30 Jun 2023 at 11:07am

o-k...I planted Northrup King corn this year, used a borrowed IH 800 6-30 tht I knew nothing about on it's operation, still not sure what happened nor does the planters owner know, all the corn did eventually come up, some a month later than the rest. but it's all growing good now. the blank looking rows were not the same thru the fields, when out checking while planting, I was alwys able to find the seeds, must have been lucky picking the right rows to check. the seed rep does have a say in what seed size is needed for any customer, and the company will send it to the warehouse for pickup from the customer. i've always done this, with Dekalb, Golden Harvest, Fontenelle, Northrup King, Pioneer, and a basket of other companies. only reason the seed companies went to the bulk systems is that the big farmers wanted something to make re-filling faster, thus came the expensive new planters, and the big bogged or big boxed seed containers, but now you have to have the support equipment to go along with that. most of the new planters hold about $200,000. in seed on one fill. they hafta have something to convey or lift the seed bags/boxes up to the planter tank(s). then the green company won't put th big hyd's on their smaller tractors that are more than able to pull the planters, but if you buy the BIGBER tractor, then the bigger hyd's are on them. those planters are over $250,000. and so are the tractors needed to pull the planter. then you have the seed trailer, another $25,000. just like the old plate planters, they will be used a few years and then put on consignment sales for the small farmers to buy, then they will hafta buy the 4x4 tractors to pull the planters. it's all a vicious circle. the old plate planters plant the same seed as the fancy screw the farmers planters do. but they don't have to have electric motors, air compressors, 30-40 hyd hoses, a computer, electric eyes, 8 or more tires, and many other things that the new big planters have. i'm sure I have not covered everything that the Bone can think of to ask. I've never been afraid to experiment with things, some things worked and some did not. If someone asks about something i've done and it worked or failed, I can truthfully comment on it. 

Your results with the IH Cyclo sound about like what the neighbor gets year after year.

Macon, just listen to shameless. I’m out.

shameless dude wrote: o-k...I planted Northrup King corn this year, used a borrowed IH 800 6-30 tht I knew nothing about on it's operation, still not sure what happened nor does the planters owner know, all the corn did eventually come up, some a month later than the rest. but it's all growing good now. the blank looking rows were not the same thru the fields, when out checking while planting, I was alwys able to find the seeds, must have been lucky picking the right rows to check. the seed rep does have a say in what seed size is needed for any customer, and the company will send it to the warehouse for pickup from the customer. i've always done this, with Dekalb, Golden Harvest, Fontenelle, Northrup King, Pioneer, and a basket of other companies. only reason the seed companies went to the bulk systems is that the big farmers wanted something to make re-filling faster, thus came the expensive new planters, and the big bogged or big boxed seed containers, but now you have to have the support equipment to go along with that. most of the new planters hold about $200,000. in seed on one fill. they hafta have something to convey or lift the seed bags/boxes up to the planter tank(s). then the green company won't put th big hyd's on their smaller tractors that are more than able to pull the planters, but if you buy the BIGBER tractor, then the bigger hyd's are on them. those planters are over $250,000. and so are the tractors needed to pull the planter. then you have the seed trailer, another $25,000. just like the old plate planters, they will be used a few years and then put on consignment sales for the small farmers to buy, then they will hafta buy the 4x4 tractors to pull the planters. it's all a vicious circle. the old plate planters plant the same seed as the fancy screw the farmers planters do. but they don't have to have electric motors, air compressors, 30-40 hyd hoses, a computer, electric eyes, 8 or more tires, and many other things that the new big planters have. i'm sure I have not covered everything that the Bone can think of to ask. I've never been afraid to experiment with things, some things worked and some did not. If someone asks about something i've done and it worked or failed, I can truthfully comment on it.

We had a CaseIH 900 for a couple of years, seed to soil contact was great, spacing not so much. The IH planter, was the original central fill, but trying to push that seed through those long tubes, and still keep the spacing, just didn't work. After a couple of years, went back to a White.

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