Missouri river bottom south of Sioux City, IA | Hi Ron
Would you like to go back to running these row units? Skips and doubles were pretty common with them. Depth control was not very good. If those two issues do not have much influence on final yield then why are we spending all this money on today’s planters?
I’ll give some credit to that row unit. They did not know it at the time but it solved the problem with wide planters planting on curves. Back then they did not know we would be pulling 90 to 120 foot planters. Since each row unit is driven independently by the press wheel, the population on the row unit on the outside of curve should have equaled the population in the row unit on the inside of curve. Now we have electric drives on each row unit that will do that for you. It just cost more $$$.
Tom N.
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