planter plate more infromation

bass · Nov 29, 2015

i was looking at Lincoln Ag products. they listed an orange color plate C1X-16

I rechecked my plates and they are C1X-16

Lincoln list them as Corn: Round; Color: Orange; Dimensions: 34-20-20

wow do the 34-20-20 relate to dimension?

on the old h I had we had only 1 set of plates and we planted everything with them; corn, peas, and pinto beans

again, what plates do i need for yellow dent?
Educate me

Jim Becker · Nov 29, 2015

(quoted from post at 12:52:25 11/29/15). . . do the 34-20-20 relate to dimension?

. . . what plates do i need for yellow dent?

64ths of an inch
http://www.lincolnagproducts.com/

Plates are selected by seed size, not necessarily variety. One variety may have one size seeds one year, something else the next. The seed companies evidently did a better job of sizing seeds before air planters made it unimportant to many.

bass · Nov 29, 2015

ok, where do i find the seed size? do the mfg, provide this info. not wanting to wait to the last minuet to find i have the wrong plate.

bass

kub6040 · Nov 29, 2015

they will plant corn , or whatever you put in the hopper
it may plant 10 okra seed in a hill but it will plant .
You will have to measure hello dent or sweet g 90 or candy
corn or blue lake Bush seed to get the exact correct plate
.

teddy52food · Nov 29, 2015

If I remember right, those plates are for large rounds from the butt end of the cob, not the tip.

kub6040 · Nov 29, 2015

bass I will check with our seed supplier tomorrow to
verify seed size ? Never tried before but may work.

LA in WI · Nov 29, 2015

bass,

Most commercial companies still have some planter plate info on the back side of the bag, but that practice is fast disappearing. Yellow Dent is an open pollinated variety of corn so you might have to sit at your work bench and see how the seeds match up with your plate cell size. The C1X-16 is for medium round kernels, not large kernels. Commercial hybrid seeds for plate type planters are fairly uniform with size and shapes....open pollinated varieties (they are not hybrids) are usually a mixture of sizes so you are on your own and you need to be observant.

I wrote a long article about seed sizes and plates to match them, back on 04-03-09. The article might be on the "Implement Forum".

The title is "Plate type planters and the plates to match your seed size".

I don't know how to move that article up to the present date on this forum ...someone on here please help with this to help this fellow.

Thank you, LA in WI

LMack · Nov 30, 2015

If you are planning on using this planter for sweet corn you should be ok since sweet corn seed are small. If you want to plant hybrid field corn then get large round grain and you should do just fine. Understand that drill spacing has shrunk over the years and these plates may not space "corn" seed close enough for you. Not to be difficult but "dent" corn refers to corn grains that have a dent depression in the dry flat grains. "Flint" corn has no side depression in the flat dried grains. Almost all flat grains will have a slight depression on the end of the grain when dried due to shrinkage. Our field corn will be "dent" corn.
Dent vs. Flint corn.

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