Winter is coming, which suggests it’s time to make sure there aren’t any gremlins lurking in your gear. Precision Planting’s Clay Scott checks in with a few of the mandatory points that should be in your planter maintenance pointers.
“You’ve heard this for the earlier a number of years. The very very first thing to confirm — are our opening discs giant sufficient? This one is about 14 and 5/8. I’m going to let you realize that this disc is junk. You’re going to say, ‘Clay, Precision Planting recommend that we alter John Deere disc at 14.5. And in addition you’d be correct. Nonetheless, is that this going to get you through the season? Do you have to solely put 30 row acres on a 12 months into some heavy conventionally tilled flooring, it can perhaps get you by. Nonetheless whenever you’re doing 100 row acres into some heavy no-till flooring with no coulter, that’s junk. This is not going to get you through a full 12 months. These are administration selections that we now should make correct now which may be going to impact the crop for the subsequent 12 months. That’s merely as mandatory as fertilizer choices and inputs. I do know that’s been heavy on our minds as of late, and that’s merely as mandatory.”
Clay will share additional insights all through a planter classroom on the Nationwide No-Tillage Conference, Jan. 7-10 in Louisville, Ky. Head to NoTillConference.com for additional knowledge.
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