Finishing Planting Today (pics)

in-too-deep · Jun 12, 2011

After a long, late spring, the end is here. In Borup, Mn. Going to have to leave about 400 acres unplanted because it's so late and we won't have time to create a good seedbed. Many late nights and one all-nighter, I planted 4100 acres. In the tractor right now on my smart phone and it looks like about 60 acres to go.

KYfarm · Jun 12, 2011

Is it possible to show a picture of the tractor pulling that planter?

I realize that it isn't an antique but I have interest in newer machines as well.

bradk · Jun 12, 2011

Yup,tough year,sounds like you guys had it lots worse.Crop insurance payment checks will be in the mail this year.............

in-too-deep · Jun 12, 2011

Needed a break anyway. '10 Case IH Magnum 275 with an '07 John Deere/Bauer Built 24r22" planter.

KYfarm · Jun 12, 2011

thanks for the pic, that is a nice looking tractor and also nice looking soil its sitting on.

I sure am doing things the old fashion way (not because I want to just because that is what I have to work with). I am still planting on 36" rows because of my 2 row picker/sheller. I have replaced the JD in the pic with an '08 MF5465 but I still pull the NI picker/sheller every year for the corn I grow to feed the cattle.

KYfarm · Jun 12, 2011

I guess since we were looking at planters I should have show that instead.

Old JD plate planter pulled by a Ford 3600. No longer using the fertilizer boxes.

After I plow and disc the field, and all my fields are rolling hills, it sure is hard to make that little 3600 go in a straight line pulling that planter.

Elmers Grassman · Jun 12, 2011

How much is owned verses rented if i may ask?

in-too-deep · Jun 12, 2011

Not exactly sure, I'm just the hired man, but my boss's father-in-law owns the majority and we pay rent to him, but my boss also owns quite a bit himself. There is also some ground owned outside the family. I'd say about 1/3 is owned my boss. The remainder is owned by his f-i-l and others.

in-too-deep · Jun 12, 2011

To be completely honest, I'd much rather be farming on my own with your kind of equipment than working for the man operating his new stuff. I watch the neighbors with their older stuff and wish I could be doing it like them.

in-too-deep · Jun 12, 2011

Whew! Finished about 11:30. Home now havin lunch and a couple beers and then a nap.

fixerupper · Jun 12, 2011

Too-Deep, I had my land custom planted with a Deere 36 row with all the bells and whistles until last spring. Last spring I started doing it myself again with a 20 year-old Deere 7200 vac 12 row and I couldn't be happier. The 12 row does just as good, if not better job and if there's a skip it's only 30 feet wide instead of 90 feet. Point rows are easier and I don't have to have a gazillion end rows. The 36 row is HEAVY with a capital H. Lots of compaction on the end rows. Jim

NW MO Poppers · Jun 12, 2011

Love your seed boxes on the planter...

Fordfarmer · Jun 12, 2011

Good feeling, isn't it? I finished Thursday, though I use smaller and older equipment on many fewer acres. (corn planter is a JD 7000 6RN) Usually start in mid-April and finish by late May, but first field didn't get planted until May 18th this year. Could have gotten done quicker if I didn't have to take time to feed and milk morning and night.

Owe my cousin who was home on leave from the air force a big Thank You! for getting done as soon as I did.

Fudpucker · Jun 12, 2011

Hey KYFarm, where are you at in KY? That is some pretty flat ground? Nice pics.

in-too-deep · Jun 12, 2011

You're right about heavy. Those central-fill planters are ridiculous when loaded with seed and fertilizer. One toollbar manufacturer makes them on tracks, which would be ideal, but usually cost-prohibitive.

KYfarm · Jun 12, 2011

I'm in spencer co. which is just southeast of Louisville, Jefferson co.

those pics are deceiving, it is hillier than it looks but the corn plots I plant, there are two, are usually on the top center of a hayfield where it is the flattest to avoid erosion.

here is what it looks like when the picker breaks down in the field.

Rich Iowa · Jun 12, 2011

I too like your planter's seed hoppers. Improvise and adapt.

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