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agboy

Posted 5/10/2010 16:10 (#1193014)
Subject: Plant Corn and Beans at same time? pics

Flandreau, SD

With the same planter, none of this two different planter stuff!!

So this has a little machinery, crop, precision, and bs so I guess I will post it here! LOL

My strip plot is all 12 rows corn/12 rows beans this year. Easy enough with a 12 row planter and auto steer right? Yup, works great.

Well needed to do 6/6.....and use the 12 row planter. ok, made a jack shaft and geared up the outside to plant beans and corn at the same time! Worked great, but the Ag Leader InSight didn't like it very well!!! I had to disable the high population warning in order to plant without it going off all the time. I ended up with 32k on the center six rows (which is what the InSight was told to plant) and 120k beans on the outside threee rows so I have a 6 row Corn/6 row Bean plot.

I used the same setup on some of my 12 row corn strips to do a 32k in the center 6 rows and 44k on the outside three rows.

Can't really tell in the pic, but yup corn and beans in at same time!

Had a guy come in the cafe at noon and jumped me on why I didn't plant strips out in that field this year. Last year it was a couple weeks inbetween planting, but this year did it all the same day. I said it is ALL strips this year and boy was he glad, he said that is the funnest field to drive by and watch all year!! Put a smile on both our faces.