Mercer County, Ohio on the Indiana line | Background- got a new sprayer and at the same time updated to RTK in corn planter, sprayer, and combine.
Sprayer is 100' combine is 35' draper and 6 row 30" corn head. Corn planter is 12 row 30" and bean planter is 15/15" 18.75 feet.
Dad and I are thinking about letting the sprayer at 100' harvesting soybeans in the sprayer track but our corn planter would only be in those tracks every 6 sprayer passes. Cutting the booms to 90' makes the corn planter and 28% applicator line up but we need 2 more passes per 80 acres of running beans down and causing compaction with the heavy combine.
We've never considered 20" corn but a 20 row 20" in a few years wouldn't be out of the question.
So do we cut 5' off each boom and make the extra passes packing down a higher percentage of the field with our heaviest pass (combine and 35' draper) or do we run 100' and plan to narrow up the row spacing to make the corn planter match the sprayer down the road while getting a wider planter and having less compaction.
Another unit on the bean planter makes it a 20' to match up with the sprayer but that pass is a featherlight pass on a maxxum and white planter. This is probably the first trade in equipment we'll make anyways if we find a good 40' drill or planter to cut down to 33 1/3' |
CTF with 100' booms?
