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Planting corn??

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550Doug

06-07-2005 06:05:30




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When I was growing up on the farm in the 50's and 60's I remember the neighbour getting a fancy corn planter. It would plant the corn in a nice lattice formation and no matter which angle you looked at the corn field, you'd see nice straight rows. Are any of these planters still available and what are they called? Sure is nice to see the patterns in the field. I'm guessing that the use of sprays to control weeds, instead of scuffling, has lead to the demise of these planters. Thanks

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paul

06-07-2005 07:38:03




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 Re: Planting corn?? in reply to 550Doug, 06-07-2005 06:05:30  
The check wire planters made 'hills' of corn, which was usually 3 seeds in a bunch. Could be 2, or 4. You got about 19000 plants per acre.

Todat we plant 32000 plants per acre, each plant needs it's space for best growth & nutrient uptake, harvesting is easier with one plant at a time rather than the 'hills', and herbicides took away cultivation, main reason for the hills.

--->Paul



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Indydirtfarmer

06-07-2005 06:22:14




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 Re: Planting corn?? in reply to 550Doug, 06-07-2005 06:05:30  
Sounds like a "check-row" or "Check-wire" planter. They used a wire with "knots" every so often to trip the "hill-drop" planter. It planted a few seeds at regular intervals, matching each row.

Most of todays planters are "drills". Planting seed every few inches, instead of skipping 40" between hills. Todays hybrid seed allows MUCH higher "plants per acre" population, making the old check row system obsolete.

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Delbert from Lincoln

06-07-2005 06:50:34




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 Re: Planting corn?? in reply to Indydirtfarmer, 06-07-2005 06:22:14  
The only checked corn I"ve seen in many years is at the University of Nebraska East Campus (ag college) near 36th and Leighton Street. This is only a few blocks from where I live. I like seeing it. I guess they do it to teach the young farmers how it was done in previous times. It is possible that some of these living history farms check corn also. When I was a kid, we had a neighbor who checked his corn (level creeek bottom land). He usually hired me to move the dummy end of the wire. He moved the end he was on. He planted with team of big horses, and supplied me with a saddled riding horse to get across the field. If I rember he paid .25cents an hour. He planted 42inch rows, and 42inches between hills. He said thats how much room his horses needed to walk between the rows. He had a GP John Deere that he plowed and disked with, and he planted, cultivated and hand shucked his corn with his horses.

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