major screw up.

flying belgian

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Maiden run with my new to me Kinze planter. Set to plant 30,000 which is 1 kernel every 7". Monitor says it is planting 1 every 3.7". Check sprockets again. Yep, got the right ones in the right place. Plant some more. Still to heavy. Scratch some rows out and find it is dropping 3 and sometimes 4 on every 7". What's going on? Plant some more, scratch some more. Can't figure it out. Finally take a box off, take finger unit off, Look at parts list in manual and see mine is missing the seed baffle in every box. The previous owner switched out the Kinze units for Precision units. When he traded planters he kept his Precision units and the seed baffles for his new planter. Gave me his new unused Kinze units but didn't tell me I needed to get seed baffles. I was unfamiliar with these planters so I never new they were missing. So moral of the story is I planted about 5 acres at well over 40,000. Think I should dig it up and replant? or just take what I get for yield?
 
No cattle for 25 miles around here. Except a 5000 cow dairy and they are not going to screw around with my 5 acres.
 
30 inch rows? Boy, 40k is borderline, could turn out well, could be crap. Any more or any less would be easy to guess, but you are right at the bubble....

Paul
 
You guys usually get enough moisture during the summer....when it is about knee high spread another 150# per acre of nitrogen before a rain and wait for the 300 bpa yield.
 
I'd be on the phone to the Kinze dealer when they open tomorrow. Even if you have to pay the shop an hour or two to get it figured out. I don't know late model Kinze but if yours has MaxEmerge style meters the brushes even though new could have gotten brittle due to age and are breaking apart. This would explain why 3 and 4 seeds are riding each finger to the drop point. Don't assume that the problem ends with the baffle. Corn planting costs are steep enough and a poor growing season will mean a poor ear on each stalk if there are three or four plants at each drop. At that point you most likely have silage material whether you want it or not. You always want to look at the seed metering mechanism ahead of the season and never assume anything. A fellow thought he was good to go one year and come to find out the mice had been chewing up his seed brushes.
 
I"d leave it. Good thing is you checked early and often, then figured out the issue. Too many wouldn"t check til much later.
 
where does the baffle go and what does it look like,reason I asked we have a set of kinze units and they look identical to the 7000 jd.
 
Then, just leave it alone. You may be early enough to get decent rain, and if you do, it may yield out really good. Even if you get normal rain, it will usually yield well, just smaller ears and a lot of them....
 
This isn't a giant screw up it's a learning opportunity. You may get a poor crop on your test plot or your best corn ever. A wise farmer told me once "a big mistake on a small area is a small mistake but a small mistake on a big area is a big mistake". I tried to do something different on a small plot every year. 15" rows,ridiculous populations,extra tillage etc
 

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