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David Bartling

04-28-2005 13:16:33

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with my 560 diesel and 6 row mounted planter, and watching my neighbors pulling IN and OUT of their fields with their new deere and kinze 24 and 32 row planters, I just thought to myself of all the fun they are missing out of. Then I looked down at my fuel gauge, and after planting for a little over 12 hours straight I was just getting to the half mark. With these soaring fuel prices I could not have been happier!!

Have a happy and safe planting season no matter how big your planter is!

David

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Cliff Neubauer

04-28-2005 17:39:02

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Re: As I was Planting....... in reply to David Bartling, 04-28-2005 13:16:33

We run a 12 row 30" planter for corn and a 24 row 15" planter for beans but we've got less money in both of them than a new Kinze would cost. The thing with the Kinze's is that they hold their value so well that I know several guys who will buy a new one then trade it in on another new one after two years for about $2/acre and usually they will need enough work by then that it's actually just as cheap to trade for a new one as it would be to rebuild the old one. If everything goes good we can plant 300-400 acres a day but even at 300 acres a day it would take a full week to get our crop in and most years we start loosing yield if we take longer than that to plant. I would love to be able to make a living farming a few hundred acres but as a young farmer starting out with a fair amount of debt it takes alot of acres to keep the banker happy.

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El Toro

04-29-2005 04:04:48

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Re: As I was Planting....... in reply to Cliff Neubauer, 04-28-2005 17:39:02

Hi Cliff, We should've had that planter when I was growing up in the 40's. My dad was using
the old horse drawn 2-row IH planter. He would sure smile to how farming is done today. Hal

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Michael Soldan

04-28-2005 16:19:04

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Re: As I was Planting....... in reply to David Bartling, 04-28-2005 13:16:33

David, I know what you mean, sometimes I wonder if the guys that tie up all that money in big machinery are any further ahead than the guy who works with smaller but affordable equipment and yes, what would you use in fuel pulling a 32 row planter...You wouldn't make as many rounds but you will still use more fuel. I remember a neighbour getting a new cultivator and saying he could do 22 acres an hour, he still couldn't plant that fast. I do understand though that running 5000 acres demands that sort of equipment as opposed to running 500 or 600 acres. My money is on guys like you for the long run...Mike in Exeter Ontario

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Allan in NE

04-28-2005 16:30:34

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Re: As I was Planting....... in reply to Michael Soldan, 04-28-2005 16:19:04

Dave, Mike,

I've been screamin' that for years. It makes absolutely no sense to me why we have to disc at a 30' to the swath. I just don't get it.

But then, I'm not making my living farming either; maybe I'd think differently if I was.

Allan

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