Most Popular Planters Ever Manufactured?

Just out of curiosity I am wondering if anyone can tell me what they think is the most manufactured planters. Lets say between the years 1950 - 2000.

I don't need any exact numbers or anything I just want to see your thoughts.

I dont know how popular it was, but my dad had a 309 Ford two row corn planter and it still is a great machine, my brother still has it.

Hands down, the JD 7000 design. Most copied as well.

when the i-h 400 cyclo planters came out, there were a lot of farmers in our area that went to them, covered a lot of ground fast. the cyclo 800 was also popular. the jd 7000 series is a good planter too.

The JD 7000 series "max-emerge" took over the market here when they came out. Understandably so. What I don't understand, is that when JD came out with a lop sided-front side engine mounted combine, they also took over the market here!

Guys, Do not forget the old tried and true JD 71 flex planters. My relatives had 2 planters prior to getting their 800 Cyclo planter.
Both were 6 rows on 40s, 1 was a milo rig w/ 2 units/row the 2nd was a corn planter with 1 unit/row. 18 units here for over 10 yrs. They replaced both planters with a IH cyclo 800.
Simpler to operate, service, 1 location to fill instead of 6 or 12.
Later,
John A.

years ago just about farm around here had a 490 or 494jd planter

Here when the IHC 400 came out it made the JD 7000 the most popular planter of all time........ Diehard IHC folks were buying green planters.

Took until the Case 12000 before it started turning around....

--->Paul

in 1979 Deere has over 60% of the planter market with the 7000 series planter.

we could not set them up fast enough to keep up with demand.

As farms got bigger and the number of farmers decreased, planter sales dropped, although numbers of row units stayed roughly the same. (Fewer planters but with more rows) The only way to compare accurately is with MARKET SHARE. With that, the Deere 7100 series had the highest market share at any time since the 50's

I think the White 5100 planters should be mentioned. Im sure that the numbers were lower than JD and IH but so was White's overall market share.

Around here in South Carolina, a lot of people used the 25-B JD planters. A lot of the Ford and Massey men ran 4 row units.

A lot of folks around here "back in the day" use to run the 494 JD.

In my area (northeast Missouri) in the 60's EVERYBODY had a 494 John Deere planter, regardless of what color their tractors were. The first plateless John Deere planters actually caused owners to look to other color planters. For a very few years the Cyclo planters were all the rage. But when the 7000 planters came out it was game over in this area. Now, about all you see in the area are Deere and Kinze planters with a scattering of other brands. Mike

Probably not the most popular planter as others have stated, but one must remember the the John Deere Flex 71 planter was such a great planter that Yetter purchased the rights to it and still manufacture it and the parts needed to keep them going.

I like planters that are individual units so any number of them can be used. I found the Flex 71s I owned in the '70s, '80s to be very accurate. If a seed was supposed to be in a certain spot then a plant grew there. I'd see skips in plantings made by other brands/models.

The JD flex planters were great imo but I think most of the other planters that used that kind of plate were AC and Buffalo were both just as accurate. the 7000 vacume planters are just mediocre in my opinion. however if you like doubles they are great. I have even looked at 1770 planted fields and noticed a fairly high rate of double planted seed. What John Deere does best is marketing, Once you have a chemical dependence on green paint you will buy anything they put out regardless of how bad it may fail. and there have been many green failures. But due to greens following of massive throbbing egos it hasn"t really suffered. for instance the early 6600 7700 combines who doesn"t think the best way to cool an engine is to pull the air across the motor to pre heat it before it goes through the radiator. My grandfather was a JD mech and got to overhaul a lot of early 10 series tractors because of casting sand that hadn"t been cleaned out of the blocks. then there was the completely redesigned 20 series combines they are a 00 series with a different grain tank and a turret auger. the titan II was just sped up that may be fine in corn country, but if you try to gain that capacity increase here in wheat country you get labor saving continuous wheat, well at least in a fifty inch stripe behind the machine. I do run John Deere equipment there hoe drills are very good as is the 455 disc drill. the tractors are also good once they got through all the problems that they had with the 30 series. I look at what the machine can do and talk to people who run them and those who run the other colors. Like with balers I run Vermeer, if Vermeer doesn"t make a top of the line baler they are pretty much done for, I run a White and a Buffalo planter and White is the best planter out there. I have good friends who thin if it is JD it has to be good, I just laugh to myself and let them.
Thank you for listening to my rant and for said rant I appologise
Levi