The Shoup meters are Precision Planting meters. That is all they sell now. A regular John Deere meter can be easily converted to a Precision meter by adding parts and drilling one hole. If you have to buy parts anyway you just as well buy the Precision parts. I've converted bunches of them. Regular John Deere meters, because of the fixed brush setting, do well with medium sized seed. The Precision units (or converted meters) do a better job on a wider range of seed sizes. However, none of them do their best when differing seed sizes are mixed. True, they will plant them, but there will be more skips and doubles. I once had a set of meters come in to test that had not had good maintenance on them. They doubled something fierce and would only plant around 89%. The seed saved by converting to Precision parts would pay for themselves in a short while with just the seed savings and do a better job all around. I got them all over 99% by doing what needed done. If I were going to design the best finger pickup meter I would use either Precision or Deere finger units themselves (NOT Kinze...they are terrible and flex WAY too much) and the rest I would go with Precision parts. The design limit of the finger pickup is being reached as far as how fast it turns, etc. Vacuum units do a better job as populations raise. Results and the test stand prove it. Mike
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