Posted by K Effective on April 01, 2017 at 08:07:22 from (162.235.236.141):
In Reply to: Check row planting posted by craigco on March 31, 2017 at 14:50:22:
Some of the differences we had with planting test plots: the field farmer ran his planter over the area with all the inputs less seed, so the rows were marked out already for us. Our planter cable had plastic knobs installed on it at longer distances- I think it was 15 feet, so when the knob hit the planter, it triggered a solenoid that opened a cup and dropped the seeds into a large cone, which singled the seeds like an old plate planter, then dropped them down into a Kinze row unit. The rider was responsible to tear the two little bags of seed off of the twine which held all the different seed samples, and dump them into the cups before the next knob hit, then move the cable at the end of the rows.
We had counted out the seeds and put them in the little bags and placed the bags on the twine in specific order, to keep the varieties straight, back in the spring. You ended up with X number of seeds planted in two rows, then a gap, then another variety in two rows, etc. Every row end we marked by using "blue" corn seed, where the plant turns purple when it dries down, to mark the ends of the rows. We came back after the plants sprouted up and thinned the row to a certain number of plants. The farmer then cared for the plot like the rest of his corn all season, and we returned with a Gleaner E combine that had been modified to harvest one ten-foot section of two rows, stop and wait as the machine cleaned the seeds, then weighed them and measured moisture, then transfer the crop into the bulk tank before moving to the next variety. Very interesting, yet mind-numbing at the same time.
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