I must have missed this video when it came out. I really enjoyed it. Nothing nicer than planting in a worked-up seed bed.

Man that seedbed is sweet! God bless

Hello looks good. Have have a great day

Looks good, thanks for sharing.

I planted my soybeans with a grain drill also. Stuffed paper down in the holes I wanted to skip. Worked OK.

I try to not comment on a lot of videos that I watch. But man, I love what your doing. Your equipment, the way your using it and the results you getting are my kind of farming. Great job and best of luck with the crops.

I did enjoy watching the video! If you can find a toolbar with 2 shanks to run in tire track to fluff up soil would work. ( just a suggestion) . We usually plant around 2 bushels/ acre and I think cousin SBF did too ! Enjoyed cousin Bill ! Oh tell your video person they did a great job ( outstanding in there field)

I don't remember where I read it, but I'm sure it was in a manual someplace. It said when you're setting your drill to go open further than you need to, and then come back to where you wanted to be. My drill has 2 settings and they aren't the same. I'm on 11 on one sise and 14 on the other side. It was playing pretty close to the same there at the end.

The chart in the lid is a good starting point, but to really KNOW what it's putting out, you have to calibrate your drill. It's not too hard to do, just takes some time. First you need to know how many revolutions the drive wheel makes per acre. To do that, either paint a stripe down the sidewall of the tire or a piece of tape, stick a flag in the ground when its pointing straight down, drive forward til it's pointing straight down again, and measure the distance between the two points... Or you can drive forward several revolutions just make sure you know exactly how many turns the tire makes, and then measure the distance and divide by the number of turns. This gives you the ROLLING circumference of the tire, which is slightly different than the overall circumference. Once you know this, you can divide the area of an acre (43,560 sq. feet) by the working width of the drill (end opener to opposite end opener) to find out how many feet the drill has to cover to make an acre. Then divide the feet traveled to make an acre by the wheel operating circumference to find out how many wheel revolutions per acre. Once you know this, put down a tarp, floor mats, or pans to catch the seed under the openers. Jack up one wheel of the drill (the drive wheel) so it turns freely, and fill the drill half full over a few openers-- you don't have to fill the entire drill, though you can, just half full over a few meters is enough. The reason you want it half full is, there's a slight difference between the drilling rate when full and when it's near empty, so halfway full is 'average' seeding rate-- the weight of the seed when it's full crams a FEW more seeds through the meters with every turn, versus when it's near empty, and this averages out about half full. Now turn the drive wheel a fraction, say 1/10th to 1/100th, of the number of turns per acre. Say it takes 630 turns to make an acre, well, that's a lot of turning, and turning it 63 times is 1/10th but that's still a lot of turns, 6.3 turns is 1/100 but that's hard to start and stop exactly, so any number that works out as an even percentage and a reasonable whole number of turns is desirable... 31.5 turns would be 1/20th of an acre, or 16.25 turns would be 1/40th acre... you don't want too many turns or too few, but more is more accurate than too few, and a whole number of turns is best if you can figure it. Once you decide on a number of turns that's a given fraction or percentage of an acre, you can turn the wheel that number of turns (make sure that seed is dropping before starting, so the meters don't have to make a full turn before dropping any seed, but then vacuum or sweep these seeds up and dump them back in the box before starting your wheel turn seed drop... collect the seeds from the given number of turns, then gather them up and weigh them, by either pulling the tarp or pans or just vacuuming them up into a clean shop vac, and then dumping them into a bucket that you've already weighed the tare weight of... weigh the bucket and seeds then deduct the tare weight of the bucket, and then multiply that by the percentage of an acre that the number of turns of the drive wheel would have covered, to give the total weight of seed dropped per acre. If needed, adjust the meters to drop more or less and repeat the test as necessary until you dial it in where you want it. Then you can write down the actual settings in your book. If the setting arm is sloppy and the numbers aren't lining up, it's best to fix it, but if it's worn or whatever or no time or parts to fix it, just measure the width of the exposed meter fluted roller sticking out into the meter housing, and the gate setting (the gates can be adjusted up or down depending on seed sizes, this is detailed how to do this in your manual). This will allow you to return to that setting by merely measuring the fluted roller width setting and gate settings between crops. Of course, soybean size (like most other seeds) can vary from year to year, even from one variety or even seed lot to another... Which will of course change the rate at which the drill is seeding, since larger seeds will be fewer in number than smaller seeds at the same weight or rate... SO for greatest accuracy, you need to calibrate the drill basically every time you change variety or seed size, and from year to year. the good news is, once you have the basic information written down (number of turns of the wheel for instance) it goes much faster.

120000 seed to the acre is actually a good population. Overcrowding reduces the yield. learned it the hard way when I planted on seven and a half inch Rows.

Well done, seems if the planter did a great job, well done so far

Man I really like the old school farming great video good to see you again

Man I really like those two paired up together even if I’m not a Deere guy. They look good together. I liked seeing the drill in the field, I’m glad it worked pretty well for ya. I’m sure the soybeans will do good! Thanks for the video

Good video!! When we setup the drill I use a long floormat from the shop or a piece of carpet would do also. I drive over it with the drill down in the yard and count the seeds over a 4ft span. Sometimes the indicator on the drill can be way off like you found. The mat helps the seeds to show and counting them helps give a sanity check

Man yeah Mr Bill!! Got those beans in the ground!! Boy the 3020 sure does look good with that drill behind it!! I can see what you are saying about the settings, but all in all it went pretty good!! Loved seeing you do this, one day I hope to as well! This video and others you have done will be such a huge help when that time comes!! Glad you didn't get rained out!! How are they looking yet? Still early I'm sure, but very interested to hear how they do!! Thank you sir for another great video!! Really enjky these alot!! Hope all is well, don't work to hard my friend!! 😁👍

I like seeing the old school i dont like New farm machemy and cab trartors