Thud - why not just add 6 more units to plant your maie rows? 2 females @30",,, then a single mail on 15" ,, 2 females etc across the planter. It can be done that way. Whisnand Hybrids does it that way. The problem I see is getting rid of the male. It is enough of a trick knocking male in 30" rows. Cutting my margin of error in half would take all the fun out of it. I don't think my old equipment is accurate enough to stay on row in 15" spacing on the male. Since I know someone will ask, male knocking is the destruction of the male corn so it does not contaminate the seed producing female. I'll attach a few photos to help illustrate. Oh, and here is the way I'd LIKE to do it, Modern Flow's male row forage harvester My old junk equipment (but it's paid for!):
Edited by Mike SE IL 9/12/2006 01:08
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