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Ottawa, Ontario | I guess I went against the grain when I traded my split row planter for a 30 foot Sunflower Drill last year.
After 13 years with the planter I was tired of the maintenance and I did need something wider, and with more capacity.
Last year I had a terrible time getting it calibrated and put on way too much seed.
This year I put a scale on one of the seed boxes and after seeding 450 acres I had less than two bags of seed left over.
My theory is that a low population in 7.5 inch rows will have lower white mold pressure than a wider row. Each plant will have more space between them. Everyone says there is more air movement in a 30 inch row. True. But when you get a white mold infection it spreads faster and on a larger scale due to the close proximity of each plant within the row. The flowering petals fall onto neighbouring plants and spread the infection.
Last year i outyielded all of my neighbours on a narrower row.
The bottom pic is how much seed I had left over after planting 450 acres. The scale paid for itself.
Edited by Cross Country 6/6/2017 21:01
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Drill or planter for soybeans
