Stephen May saves on seed cost

If you suck at driving then yeah there probably is a yield advantage but if you are competent then probably not. When you have a lot of point rows like Ryan has then the row clutches are probably more likely to pay for themselves compared to people who have square fields and where you don't farm the contours. If you do have a lot of point rows and you don't have row clutches you will waste quite a bit of seed and there could be a yield hit in those overlap areas especially if it would be a dry summer. *My opinion: Depends on the size of the operation and the type of ground you are farming but in a lot of cases the electronics are probably just more of a luxury than something that will actually make you a whole bunch of money. Edit: I should add that the technology will help things go faster. For example without row clutches if you wanna do a good job when you come to the end of the field you stop, pick up the planter, turn around, stop again, and set it back down. With clutches you just drive straight into your endrows and they shut off automatically and you can pick it up, turn around, and set it down all without stopping and over time that can add up to where you are getting a noticeable amount more done in a day.

​@@TJ-bk9vfI know this is 6 years later, but someone might find it helpful. If you don't have marker arms, auto-steer is important (you can get by with GPS that doesn't have autosteer, but it is an absolute pain). In fact, I would say that it's more cost effective to get autosteer than to pay for the marker arm option on new implements.

Most of the yield is determined by the amount of starch a plant produces for the offspring. The seed has little effect on the parent plant unless pollination is abnormal.

Shawn Zenz If you go to travis channel he has hay videos up

Yeah I know

Down. we dont lift it for the waterways.The boundrys are set in the monitor and it automaticaly shuts off the rows when we go out of the boundrys- like through a waterway.

Yeah the BIL plants straight through too, but he doesn't have the electronics so it just keeps dropping seed... but his waterways aren't wide enough to really matter much. He told me to do the same thing when I was drilling soybeans for him. If you've got a lot of land and a lot of waterways, or are going through them obliquely quite a bit, I can see where the point row shutoffs and GPS would save you quite a bit... Later! OL J R :)

dejanira2 the colors can show different things such as singulation spacing population down force and a few others. The markers are technically not needed with the Rtk system or any other gps. On my farm we use them on the headlands because it is to much of a hassle to use the gps on the headlands. Also smaller planters like this have markers because smaller planters=smaller or older farmers who might not use gps. Last these are not dumb questions at all it is good you want to learn

Kevin Willis depends on how many seeds per acre you put out.

early may. About 30 days ago

Chase Livingston thks

1000-1200

Lucas Makk how many videos have you watched? It's been answered a ton. PLEASE PAY ATTENTION

Thanks, John.

First year with auto steer still like to have the trail mark for a double check.

Dwight, you and I are older and a bit harder to convince on this new technology stuff. I'd be like you and put the row marker down in case the electronics fail and you need to keep planting. You have two great sons and I am proud of them for you.

jbmbanter I'm guessing if the technology was to fail he still has something easy to follow.

Potosi. close to Dubuque Ia.

cade martin they dont

they will spray the grass

I was thinking the same - is it for double checking the new system?

Adam Offen my guess like most computerized stuff a back up incase it fails!

when your turning around on the headlands it gives you a reference to where you should be turning.

They use the 8R for tillage; the 4640 works well with their planter

Jack Mraz ok thanks man

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I let them run it some but the planting is 99% my job.

"Singulation" is the planting of one single seed in its allotted space. Corn has a sweet spot of space where it produces the most for that space. A double results in two plants competing with the allotted resources. A skip results in other plants having more resources but they may not be able to utilize this extra amount of resources into as much yield as the missing plant could have. A trait called flex allows for corn to utilize more or less space...corn is more complex than simple.

Robert Reznik what do the numbers Travis mentioned mean? I think 38,000 or something

43560 square feet divided by 38,000 seeds. In Texas we seed 32,000 seed to produce 300 bu / acre. perhaps 38,000 can produce more.

Robert Reznik cool, thank you!!!