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Drilling vs Planting Soybeans (again)
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tkoppel
Posted 3/17/2014 12:20 (#3759031)
Subject: Drilling vs Planting Soybeans (again)


Sanilac Co. Michigan
I solid seed (drill) my soybeans. Likely always will. This thread is NOT about saving on seed costs or the virtue of narrow over wide row spacing. This thread is about seed spacing in the row, and the question of whether it makes a nickles worth of difference in final yield. For instance, a drill set up to plant in 15" runs will drop @ six seeds per foot. A planter set up to plant 15" rows will drop @ six seeds per foot. The drill drops randomly, could be 2 or one or 3 inches from seed to seed, and the planter is perfect and drop a seed exactly 2 inches from the last seed dropped. Does anyone really believe that exact seed spacing has an effect on final yield? Of course, as the rows get wider seed spacing gets shortened in proportion, to the point where spacing becomes irrelevant.
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