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centash

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Hot the test plot in today. Most of my farm is no till except for a 10 acre spot where we held our antique plow days last fall. Made one pass Wednesday and another this morning with the cultivator and by late afternoon is seemed dry enough to plant. I usually put a test plot in with seed supplied by the corn dealers. 7 varieties in this plot of about 4 acres, took about 4 hours, a lot of switching seed, emptying the hoppers etc. but there was not much else to do since the no till ground is st lesst to warm and sunny days away from being ready. Sure was nice to have the cab tractor on the planter....about60 degrees and windy....even if the centre post blocked my view of the muffler!
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I always liked those Kinze double frame planters. Especially the four row models. A lot of versatility for the small farmer.
 
Yep, it has covered a lot of acres, has interplants for soys and does a good job in no til. It's actually a New Idea with Kinze units.
Ben
 
That is really nice looking soil. Just dry enough to crumble and not damage it from tilling when too wet. Nice.
 
Where was that New Idea planter built? I live close to the old New Idea factory at Coldwater Ohio and there were no planters in this area. If they were built here all were shiped out and not sold close to the New Idea factory.
 
Nothing near that dry to the south of you Ben.....back in the '80's I set up NI planters that had the gray frame....the units came from Deere
 

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