kaky9236 - 10/17/2016 09:01 I run a 1770 planter with the esets, and love the job it does in corn, but I never did like the way it metered soybeans. Don't get me wrong, it is so much further ahead than the controlled spill of the old soybean cups, but I liked the way the kinze and deere brush meters drop them in a single row, instead of the triple row like the deere vac meters. I see that precision planting makes a singulator and plate for the eset meter. Has anyone done any testing to determine how important soybean singulation is? I have walked stands of my beans and the spacing could definitely be better, but wondering how important it is. There is such a variety of ways to plant beans and can be so dependent on weather and such, but want to give them the best chance they can have also. This is 50-80 bpa yield potential, irr and dryland, 30" rows. Curious on thoughts I get about this. Thanks. There have been university tests for seed singulation spacing and such - It is inconclusive and has no value to ultimate yields. Unlike corn plants - soybeans compensate for all our planting "sins" . . . . You can screw up and plant 200000 seeds per acre and "bunch" the majority of them up in the first few yards and oddly space out the rest and the yield would be the same as precisely spaced seeds. Same with seed depth, screw up an plant too deep or too shallow and they seem to yield the same . . . . .. Now throw in the different row spacing's and the plant still compensates and adjusts it growing needs accordingly to yield as it sees fit for all the environmental and soil conditions . . .. . . . Long story short - don't waste too much money or time on soybean singulation gizmos' . . . . .
Edited by iseedit 10/17/2016 09:30
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Soybean singulation
