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Marengo, Iowa | Dale, I tried putting liquid innoculant/ seed treatment on like you are talking about a few years ago, and didn't have much success. The fist challenge is to figure out the rate of seed you will be augering so you can adjust the amount of liquid. Then, when you start applying the liquid, the auger takes more power to move the grain, slows down and your calibration is wrong. I was doing this with a steel auger and it would gum things up to the point that you could only run it about 1/3 capacity. Also, you have the variable of the auger angle you are running and the rpm of your hydraulic source. The seed will have to sit awhile to dry, before they will feed properly in your planting unit.
A side note. I got some color treated beans from a dealer, and was amazed at the number of splits that I had after augering them with the steel auger, so I replaced it with a brush auger, and didn't see much improvement. This year I am going to use a Crustbuster belt seed tender with pro boxes. The salesman claims that the polycupped augers will give you more splits than a steel auger because of the wedging.
Good luck on your prodject, Larry | |
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poly, brush or cupped auger
