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Topic: planter plates for popcorn

Posted By: farmerzzz
Subject: planter plates for popcorn
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2018 at 4:08pm

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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Posted By: Kurt WI
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2018 at 5:02pm

Are you talking an air champ or a plate planter?

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Posted By: exSW
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2018 at 5:13pm

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.

Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2018 at 10:00pm

I've always used corn plates, have used both 16 cell and 24 cell.

Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2018 at 8:24am

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.

Posted By: farmerzzz
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2018 at 8:29am

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?

Posted By: JoeO(C-MO)
Date 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??

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Posted By: ac fleet
Date 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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Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2019 at 2:22pm

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.

Posted By: tomNE
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2019 at 6:25pm

a company in lincoln NE makes/has new planter plates for whatever is needed. google them up!

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Posted By: tbran
Date 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/" rel="nofollow - https://lincolnagproducts.com/

The spacing will be just like field corn on the chart in the op man.

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Posted By: JoeO(CMO)
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2019 at 6:59pm

Planter Plate

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