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farmerzzz 
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 Topic: planter plates for popcorn
Posted: 03 Jul 2018 at 4:08pm |
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Can I use sorghum plates without spacer to plant popcorn? What do the rest of you use, I can not get my pop low enough with my corn plates. Are there special popcorn plates?
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Kurt WI
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Posted: 03 Jul 2018 at 5:02pm |
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Are you talking an air champ or a plate planter?
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exSW
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Posted: 03 Jul 2018 at 5:13pm |
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E&R seeds in Monroe,Indiana has all kind of plates. Old Order outfit so communication is a little slow.
Got the popcorn plates for my IH 56 there.
Edited by exSW - 03 Jul 2018 at 5:14pm
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shameless dude
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Posted: 03 Jul 2018 at 10:00pm |
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I've always used corn plates, have used both 16 cell and 24 cell.
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Dakota Dave
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Posted: 04 Jul 2018 at 8:24am |
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I only plant one row of popcorn so I use the sweet pea plate and put duct tape over every other hole. Popcorn plates are avaliable for my Earthway planter but I haven't ordered them.
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farmerzzz
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Posted: 04 Jul 2018 at 8:29am |
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I have a 500 AC plate planter and I have been using corn plates ,but my population is always to high! What size plate did you use?
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JoeO(C-MO)
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Posted: 23 Jan 2019 at 9:20am |
I was sorting thru some plates I picked up at an auction and found a pair that are listed in the planter book with #302610 **; ** needs the 327117 filler plates for corn hoppers ?What are some good numbers for sweet corn size range??
Edited by JoeO(C-MO) - 23 Jan 2019 at 9:47am
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ac fleet
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Posted: 23 Jan 2019 at 12:56pm |
Plate sizes will depend upon your specific seed, can't give exact #'s. You will have to get seed, test fit seed in different plates until you find one that looks good, then set planter , and do test pull on hard ground. I plant same sweet corn every year and have to use different plates every year due to seed size being a bit different.
You might try blocking off some of the plate holes and test drop from there. I have had to do that a time or two!
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HD6GTOM
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Posted: 23 Jan 2019 at 2:22pm |
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Our neighbor planted pop corn with a 494a JD planter and Sorgrum plates. It had a hill drop setting on it and he used that.
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tomNE
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Posted: 23 Jan 2019 at 6:25pm |
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a company in lincoln NE makes/has new planter plates for whatever is needed. google them up!
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tbran
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Posted: 23 Jan 2019 at 8:54pm |
THATS LINCOLN AG PRODUCTS - Lincoln Ne. any yes you must use filler plate with the AC plates or the universal plate (some refer to them as JD plates because they fit Deere w/o adapter drives like Ac and others had to have) . https://lincolnagproducts.com/
The spacing will be just like field corn on the chart in the op man.
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JoeO(CMO)
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Posted: 28 Jan 2019 at 6:59pm |
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