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West Central, MO | I'm not taking any advice or suggestions on here as criticism. Otherwise I wouldn't be posting up asking for suggestions.
Farming is not our full time business--that's another reason for the larger equipment, we need our farm manager to be able to get it done by himself or with 1 helper if necessary. The 8330 is certainly overkill, but there's another reason for it besides farming. And yes we can also knock out 60 A/day with the drill & twice that with the 7200 on 30" rows. But again, maybe it's just the last 3 years weren't 'normal', but every year it's taken us about 6 weeks to finish up beans because of rain delays. These bottoms do not dry out fast.......get rained out........4 days later it's almost perfect..........rains again. Another 4-5 days about to plant..........rains again. And this pattern has been repeated over and over. So we're thru counting on that being a possibility. And the drill has proven to be a waste of seed with no yield advantage.
I would rather trade the drill for a 6/11 split row than to keep planting with it. One reason we haven't really considered a 12/23 is because we haven't seen any priced for enough less to justify it.
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What would you do? Planter & Combine ???
