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Faunsdale, AL | Have planted a lot of beans on 7.5" with 8300 and similar drills as well as 750-1560 no-till models. I would suggest going to 15"s just because there are twice as many per foot of row so less inclined to have emergence problems if you have minor crusting.
I plant about half of mine on 15" with just the rear rank of the 1560 drill and usually post with a 3 point sprayer on a 4440 with 18.4 tires. At harvest you can see the tracks but I expect if you spray when you should, the beans next to the tracks will branch and compensate by setting more pods.
Unless you have row markers or GPS it is probably going to be hard to maintain row spacing well enough for you to run them anyway. What boom width and drill width do you have?
I think the snap in seed cup covers for JD drills fit all models. I found out the hard way that duct tape will sometimes break loose when used for covering seed cups. I cut small rectangles of tin and taped them over the cups for several years before I bought a set of the plastic ones from Shoup. | |
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Need advice for planting soybeans with grain drill
