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SEIA | Assuming you are using the 60 cell brush meters in your planter units, I’d use a 15 on the drive and 28 on the driven. In 15 inch rows that would give you around 130,000 seeds per acre, which for me is plenty.
Don’t let yourself get confused by thinking in terms of pounds per acre. The smaller the seed, the more seeds per pound. Conversely, the bigger the seed, the less seeds per pound. A planter full of 2700 seeds/pound beans will plant 10%fewer acres than the same planter full of beans that are 2970 seeds/pound.
If you are using treated seed, some treatments are kind of sticky and some are really slick and tend to plant a heavier population.
Your book should have a chart in it for both brush and finger pickup meter rates. | |
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15 inch soybeans kinze 2000
