Planting Popcorn

Shawn W

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What does everybody use to plant popcorn?
I am wantin a small planter 4 or 6 row 30" planter. I can find lots of john deere 7000 finger pickup planters, but I dont think they will work with popcorn. Will also use this for planting sweet corn also. I have been plantin the sweet corn with my 12 row kinze and doing the popcorn with my 1 row garden planter, but im expanding and dont wanna plant by hand. I'm not sure I wanna go with anything older that you cant find parts for.
Thanks
Shawn
 
It should work. Might end up with more doubles with the smaller seed, but some sweetcorn seed is also small. I give it a try at least one year and see how it turns out.
 
I grew popcorn under contract for 2 different brands for 20+ years. (From as few as 24 acres, to 120 acres last couple years) Used Deere #71's, 4-row for a while, then went to 6-row for last 6 years. small round plates are still available as needed (from Lincoln Ag)
 
If you are working the ground a cyclo IH planter with a popcorn drum would work good. White has a popcorn disk for their planters, and Deere and other vac planters also have popcorn disks. To plant it with a finger p/u I think they sell special fingers for small corn but don't hold me to that.
 
Does it have to be 30 inch rows?
Look at the sunflower cups for a JD 7000. I tink they would work. Or the soybean cups. How does popcorn cpmpare to soybeans as for size of seed>
 
(quoted from post at 20:33:31 09/03/12) What does everybody use to plant popcorn?
I am wantin a small planter 4 or 6 row 30" planter. I can find lots of john deere 7000 finger pickup planters, but I dont think they will work with popcorn. Will also use this for planting sweet corn also. I have been plantin the sweet corn with my 12 row kinze and doing the popcorn with my 1 row garden planter, but im expanding and dont wanna plant by hand. I'm not sure I wanna go with anything older that you cant find parts for.
Thanks
Shawn

I planted half an acre of popcorn this year using a 2 row IH plate planter. I used sorghum plates that I modified to fit my seed.
 
Finger pickup's were all that were used around here until guys switched to the bulk fill planters. Just tighten the spring in the middle up about 1/8-1/4 turn to account for the smaller seed.
 

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