Headlands?

Erik Ks farmer · Oct 24, 2012

I plant my headlands 1st, 4 rounds with a 6 row planter or 5 rounds with a 13ft end wheel drill. Just finished sowing wheat and I'm curious how others plant. I've seen it done both ways.

kevinj54 · Oct 24, 2012

The guy renting mine does it about the same as you do.

Anonymous-0 · Oct 24, 2012

we call them end rows around here and i'm not sure how you couldn't plant them first. i like your MF tractors.

samn40 · Oct 24, 2012

We can't plant our headrigs first as they are not even ploughed! We
need all the drainage we can get and to avoid compaction we have
2 reversible ploughs in the field with a powered one-pass planter
following close behind, just in case it rains!. once the field centre is
planted the ploughmen plough the rigs and the planter follows.
The two ploughs are the same width as the planter.
Sam

jackinok · Oct 24, 2012

i plant mine last,but i dont have any square or rectangular fields anymore.since i do so much sharp turning at ends ,ive found that if i go around and do the headlands last i get a better stand there . i could plant them first ,but in my sandy bottoms wheels would have most of the seed either too shallow or deep. just works better for me.

Bob Bancroft · Oct 24, 2012

I plant headlands first also. Three passes.

sd pete · Oct 24, 2012

I always planted headlands first. 2 rounds with a
8 row planter and 4 rounds with the drill.

rrlund · Oct 24, 2012

First with the corn planter,last with the grain drill.

wilamayb · Oct 24, 2012

Because of our soil type, the headlands are usually planted last here. The compaction is so great that the stand is very poor if turned on after planting. Crops that are drilled dont usually mind a touch of overpopulation so overdrilling wont matter to a great degree if you cross a row or two on the end with your cross drill.

It's easy to see while driving on the road who plants their headlands first. Makes a mess....

Dalet · Oct 24, 2012

I always do the headlands, endrows, what have you first. If you don't, how do you know where to lift up the planter?

Josh in Pa · Oct 24, 2012

I go around the field planting the whole way until the headlands are big enough to comfortable turn around, and then pick the straightest side of the field and start going back and forth. Sometimes I'll plant some on both sides if the field is odd shaped, to keep my point rows more even with each other, less empty running with the combine.
Josh

fixerupper · Oct 24, 2012

48 end rows on each end planted first for corn and beans here in NWIA. Seems like alot but it's one round for the sprayer. The neighbor plants 72 end rows with his 36 row planter. Around here so many farmers have GPS auto shutoff on their planters now. They plant the ends first and the GPS remembers that. Then when they plant the field the GPS automatically shuts the planter or certain rows of the planter, off on teh ends. I hope to have that setup next spring. Jim

Anonymous-0 · Oct 24, 2012

plant end rows first 36 of them

ihman73 · Oct 25, 2012

Headlands first with the planter, last with the drill. We used to always plant the endrows last when we worked ground but since we started no-tilling we found it to be easier to plant them first.

the tractor vet · Oct 25, 2012

We do three rounds around the field with a 4 row corn planter as that gives us enought at the headlands for turning while we are picking with a two row picker . When we use a 6 row it is three rounds around this will allow enough room for a 6 row corn head . The bigger the harvesting equipment the more room ya need at the ends.

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