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15 No-Tillers Share Their Best Planter Tweaks, Upgrades

No-tillers take planter modifications seriously as they aim for optimum seed and nutrient placement for specific farm conditions.

By Dan Crummett posted on January 11, 2016 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Equipment, Residue Management

Although farm equipment manufacturers have engineers specifically charged to design and build no-till planters that efficiently place seed in the ground at the optimum depth, in a variety of field conditions, it’s difficult to find a no-tiller running a truly “bone stock” OEM planter.

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No-Tillers Share Their Best Planter Tweaks, Upgrades

January 4, 2016 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Equipment

Planter modifications aimed at optimum seed and nutrient placement take many forms as growers customize their equipment for specific farm conditions.

Drill And Planter Calibration For Soybeans

May 1, 2012 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Equipment

Source: By Andrew Frankenfield, Montgomery County, Penn State University Extension

Soybean seed size effects planter or drill seeding rates, and the only way to ensure your seed drop is what you are targeting is to calibrate.

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Improving Your No-Till Planter

Actively responding to the questions of fellow farmers, no-tillers have been eager to jump into a number of different hot topics.

By Michael Austin posted on January 1, 2003 | Posted in Equipment

Now is the best time of year to utilize the No-Till Farmer Web site message board, Farmer’s Forum, at www.no-tillfarmer.com.

Double Your Acreage — Relay Intercrop!

This family says relay intercropping soybeans after wheat in the same field in the same year has boosted yield, income, family time and available acreage—while dropping chemical costs in their no-till operation.

By Katherine Meitner posted on May 1, 1999 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

Keith Thompson of Osage, Kan., was at his wits end. His family's no-till operation just wasn't up to par and he knew if something wasn’t done soon, something had to give.

Too Big For Conventional Britches

Here’s what one no-tiller did when conventional tillage became ridiculously inefficient.

February 1, 1999 | Posted in Equipment

Mike Linnehan had a problem. Fortunately, it was a problem that most other no-tillers would consider a kind of blessing. His farm in Sparta, Wis., was getting too big - and conventional tilling just wasn't cutting it anymore.

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