Jd 1520 no till drill

spitz · Dec 20, 2019

Looking at switching some acres to no till. Any opinions on this drill? I would be drilling Soybeans into standing corn stalks at 15?. I have a 15? used drill close that I may go look at if it is a good drill. Would 120hp be enough to pull it in souther mn soils?

tomstractorsandtoys · Dec 20, 2019

The problem with drilling soybeans with a drill is that a drill is just a controlled spill. You just can not get good seed spacing and seed placement with a drill. Here (WI) the farmers that were using drills have all went to 30 inch planters. Neighbor simply plants his beans between the existing corn rows and gets great stands. We split rows for a few years to get 15 inch but several neighbors had plots that showed no advantage to rows less than 30 inches. Very few drills are going to do a good enough job planting into the residue from 180-200 bu corn. Planters can be set up with row cleaners to do the job and do it well. We have a Deere 7000 setup with combo no-till coulters and row cleaners. Our beans ran 70.5 bu to the acre across the scales this fall. Tom

caterpillar guy · Dec 22, 2019

Tom is right about the controlled spill. We went to 18 inch rows with a white planter. Used the row units off from a New Idea planter to fill the frame up. They are the same units as the 6100 white planter. Now to get more units on for a bout a 24 ft planter. Need to add to the frame.

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