grain to plant corn?

Chesterville Farms · Oct 12, 2008

I have been using a 2 row IH planter for a smaller field but I want a bigger planter for next year to plat 15 acres of corn. It is already a no-till field. I know I"ll need a drill for beans in 2 years. Can I use a drill to plant corn too? My dad said he knows someone who is using an IH drill to plant sweet corn, he just plugged some of the drops. Can I use a drill to plant field corn in no-till? I would rather get just one piece of equipment rather than 2.

boomer22 · Oct 12, 2008

You can use a drill as I've seen it done. It doesn't do as good as job in dropping and the correct spacing of seed but if you can live with that i guess you can.

IaGary · Oct 12, 2008

I would be more inclined to buy a 30" planter and use it to notill the soybeans as well as the corn and forget the drill.

Seed placement will be much better for both.

Lot of guys are leaving the drill and going back to a 30" planter here in Iowa.

I did.

Gary

CNKS · Oct 12, 2008

Corn is much more sensitive to seed spacing in the row than soybean. Best to use a planter designed for the purpose.

Anonymous-0 · Oct 12, 2008

By going to 30in rows you can cultivate for weed control then spray later if needed.

Chesterville Farms · Oct 12, 2008

Thanks for the advice. Is 30" too wide to space beans?

CNKS · Oct 12, 2008

That is a common spacing. The bean plant will compensate for the row width. I would call 40" too wide, though.

GeneMO · Oct 12, 2008

I would look at a John Deere 7000 or 7200, 6 row, 30" spacing. 30" rows are the most common, you can find someone to harvest the corn if it is in 30" rows. Ask around for someone who does custom harvesting in your area. Your row width needs to match whatever is the most common headers for the combine. You wouldn't want 38" or 40" if no one had a header to match. You could use this one machine then for both corn and beans. Might even consider a 4 row 30". If you plant straight and keep your spacings accurate, then someone with an 8 row head could shell your corn. Again ask around locally and see what the most common corn heads are.

Gene

GeneMO · Oct 12, 2008

I would look at a John Deere 7000 or 7200, 6 row, 30" spacing. 30" rows are the most common, you can find someone to harvest the corn if it is in 30" rows. Ask around for someone who does custom harvesting in your area. Your row width needs to match whatever is the most common headers for the combine. You wouldn't want 38" or 40" if no one had a header to match. You could use this one machine then for both corn and beans. Might even consider a 4 row 30". If you plant straight and keep your spacings accurate, then someone with an 8 row head could shell your corn. Again ask around locally and see what the most common corn heads are.

Gene

Chesterville Farms · Oct 13, 2008

That's great advice. Thank you very much.

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