check planting corn

rod in nebraska · Jul 30, 2011

We did some check planting for our tractor show next weekend, took some pictures of it will planting, will try and get the movie to play, rod
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DeltaRed · Jul 30, 2011

Cool!Thats the first time I've seen a checkrow work-or the 'end result'.Thanks for posting,Steve

fixerupper · Jul 30, 2011

Thanks for the link. Brings back memories of my dad check planting with a 490 Deere. I barely remember him planting in a couple of fields. He started out with a 290 just like this one. The 240 acre farm might have had 80 acres of corn at the time. He used to mention how many buttons per minute was the right speed. Moving and stretching the wire just right on every end was an art that I'm way too young to have learned. Jim

keh · Jul 30, 2011

How successful was check row planting as a means of weed control?

KEH

robgIN · Jul 30, 2011

check row was used so you could cultivate the same direction as you planted and at a 90 degree angle so you could get the most weeds out.

paul · Jul 30, 2011

Neat.

I thought one only had 2, 3, or 4 kernals per hill, that seems planted a little thick? But then, back then they were planting at 1800-2000 population and hoping for 80 bu yield....

--->Paul

JMS/.MN · Jul 30, 2011

Looks like they planted in only one direction, not back and forth? CRS says the max poplation available was around 14,000.

rod in nebraska · Jul 30, 2011

you are right on about the seed count per hill, we hade 24 cell plates instead of 16 and it looked like it was going to be dry so planted a little thick, the tractor show this weekend, will be cultivating, will get more pictures, thanks rod

J.Wondergem · Jul 30, 2011

The last time I seen a field of cron look like that had to be in the 50s. Maybe I should plant the garden that way, I hate hoeing.

tjdub · Jul 31, 2011

Thanks for the video.

One of my neighbors planted all of his corn with a check planter all the way up to the 1990s. He planted maybe 50 acres of it every year. It was something to see when you would drive past his fields and you would see those rows align, then align again the other way. It was really something to see. He didn't have anybody moving the wire for him either, he would get off the tractor twice on every pass and move it himself.

I remember hearing a radio story about how the newest precision planters have the same effect with rows going in two directions and I just thought "Well, it's about time technology caught up to Francis.".

greenbeanman in Kansas · Jul 31, 2011

I first learned of check row planting in the 1970s as an old timer had told my brother about it. No corn was planted in our dry western Kansas area so we had neither seen it before, or for that matter even heard of it.

Thanks for the video showing how it is actually done.

I have a small field along a busy county road. Wish I had the equipment to plant it that way for others to see. Dryland corn is raised where I now live.

Would be neat to use a binder on the stalks and then stook it or shock it for all to see the old ways.

NW MO Poppers · Jul 31, 2011

Grandpa always said about check planting "2 (kernals per hill) isn't enough, and 3's too many"... LOL.

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