mcupps - 3/2/2013 17:04
why you hate them? I love drilled or 15 inch beans over 30s. I switch to a drill when it gets too dry to get the drill in the ground if your watering them I guess thats kind of a different deal and seems to be the opposite program of what makes northern beans yield.
Planted everything on 15" rows last year and loved it. Seed spacing and accurate depth is what we like about a planter. The drill was putting seed everywhere and at sorta the same depth but was horrible to get a stand. We had perfect moisture at planting time and would have beans come up for 10 days or more. With a planter they break the ground at the same time or real close. 55-75 bpa with a planter and we worked our butts off in drilled beans to hit 50.
We are mostly irrigated and bed up about half our bean acres. A planter works for us. Like I said I wouldn't go back to a seeder unless I had to. If we raised half our acres in rice again a seeder would be good. We used to be that way and raised a lot of wheat also. | 
Planting soybeans- planter or air drill?
