Posted by tjdub on July 30, 2011 at 23:21:47 from (208.74.246.137):
In Reply to: check planting corn posted by rod in nebraska on July 30, 2011 at 06:47:30:
Thanks for the video.
One of my neighbors planted all of his corn with a check planter all the way up to the 1990s. He planted maybe 50 acres of it every year. It was something to see when you would drive past his fields and you would see those rows align, then align again the other way. It was really something to see. He didn't have anybody moving the wire for him either, he would get off the tractor twice on every pass and move it himself.
I remember hearing a radio story about how the newest precision planters have the same effect with rows going in two directions and I just thought "Well, it's about time technology caught up to Francis.".
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