Kentucky | engbert2 - 4/25/2012 22:31 I have been thinking about trying to go to vsets next year but rebuilt my meters before I started this year and so far I have been running close to an average of 99.4 % singulation and even better spacing ... SRI just above 10 average ... so haw can the vsets pay for them self's ???
That's a good question. I made the switch to vSets on a new planter because the fingers can't handle higher speeds especially as populations increase. The fingers also change over the planting season. I wonder how many guys (or gals) that post 99% singulation with fingers really average that over various seed sizes and through the whole season. As the season progresses, I notice that it is harder to maintain the same level of singulation as I had at the beginning. I just ran ~1000 acres through the vSets and couldn't tell any difference from the beginning of planting to the end. The planter average ran 99.8% or better virtually all the time. This is no-till conditions at 5.4 mph. I could never average better that 98.5% in those conditions over the whole crop with fingers.
How's the planting coming in Winnebago Co.? I used to live there.
Edited by Jmark71 4/26/2012 08:17
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20/20 seedsense and precision finger pick-ups
