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Drilling pearl millet with grain drill, help on setting.

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Tom Elliott

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I am drilling pearl millet with a JD RB 1610 drill. The setting for Hung. Millet is 4 on the gate and 5 on the compound gears to put 10 lbs. to the acre. I want to put 25 lbs. to the acre with the pearl millet. How much more should I open the feed gate? Pearl millet is a little larger than Hung. Millet. Thanks, Tom
 
Does your drill have 8-inch spacing?

I don't know anything about the compound gear business, but on my FB drill with 7-inch spacing the setting for 27 lbs/acre millet was 6 and it was pretty close. I started to get worried I would run out of seed so I turned it down to 5, but I shouldn't have. I ended up going back over it to use up the seed when I was done.

The seed charts that Ole Shovel sent me for my FB with 7 and 8 inch spacing show the Millet setting to be consistently a small amount less than that for Wheat. I would set your drill for whatever it recommends for 27 lbs/acre of wheat and I think you should drop around 25 lbs/acre of Pearl Millet. Seems wrong because the millet seeds are way smaller than wheat, but who am I to argue with the chart?

If your drill has the adjustable flaps on the back of the seed cups, make sure those are set all the way up too.
 
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