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AR Plowboy

Posted 10/13/2017 21:10 (#6306158)
Subject: Planting CC with GP twinrow planter

East Central Arkansas

I don't own a drill and don't have enough ac to have one. In the past have planted some with the row over the old row but didn't have a way of planting the middles so I didn't have complete cover and the winter weeds got pretty thick in the middles. I knocked everything down flat last fall due to subsoiling the fields at a angle to the row so I have first year beds that the middles are not near as deep as they usually are. I am able to run the planter at a angle to the row and I am planning on making a second pass and plant the middles from the first pass. I am using a lightbar and also running at the same angle the combine did that had auto steer. My planter width doesn't match the header width but the tracks help over just trying to look at the lightbar as the tractor rocks going over those beds. I amusing the volumetric plates in the planter. I am using a low gear setting that I just figured out to turn those plates very slow. I think it is like 2.8 seed drops per foot but each drop drops multiple seeds. We are planting cereal rye but did do a couple of small fields with some radish mixed in while we were still using the milo plates. We are getting about 17 lbs a acre of rye with a single pass so making a double pass splitting the middles will give me 34 lbs a ac.