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Gruver Tx | I have a 24 row dB 60 and don’t have experience directly but observe a large mega farm who are neighbors and own the local precision dealer. They strip till continuous corn and have to run a strip finisher ahead of the high speed planters to get a smooth enough seed bed as well as narrow gauge tires to plant on the smoothed strip. They run 4 16 row high speed planters. They built 2 planters from scratch this year with harvest international row units to handle the speed abuse and had every precision part on them. I have looked at their planters the last few years when considering what I might update on mine during the winter season. The row cleaners and row tires would be demolished. That being said they did a study on high speed corn and only had 2 missed seeds on 600 plant counts of row so getting very good planting results. I was thinking along the same lines. It cost so much for planter additions on a 24 row versus a high speed 12 or 16 row. I’m just going to keep the old 24 row and stay wider and slower. | |
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Going from 24 regular to 16 row high speed?
