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| I walked a farmers feilds who planted twin row corn with a GP precision drill, in 04 and 05 ( was scouting the taters next to them)
His were dropped in a perfect staggered pattern , ' , ' , ' , ' , ' , ' , ' , ' , ' , ' , ' , ' was curious as to stand ....rather un scientific but I counted the skips and it was 95 % stand .... 475 plants in 500 spots ( yeah yeah I know I should have used a tape and did it correctly, but was on my time and not his), heck that could have been attributed to germ. I am gonna hear flack for this but, way better spacing than any other planter I have ever done a stand count on, even better than monosem, which is supposed to be the cream of the crop.
I will perface this with this statement... I HATE drilled beans, the stand and emergence is uneven. BUT, another of my potato growers has the same drill and I see Soybean emergence on 7 1/2" as good as his neighbors JD planter on 15" looks like a green carpet, not the usual mottled look a drilled field has.
I am very impressed with these machines, I dont really know much about durability, etc, but the stands are better than anything else I look at.
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20 inch corn in cent. IL
