seeds per foot

Anonymous-0 · Jul 8, 2013

Starting to sow soybeans with a JD 494A planter and using the 20 cell plates. It appears to be putting out 18 to 20 seeds per foot. I thought about 5 to 8 seeds per foot would be plenty is this to much per foot? And what setting on the gear box is correct for planting beans 2,3, or 4?

JMS/.MN · Jul 8, 2013

Row width makes a difference. What population per acre are you shooting for?

Anonymous-0 · Jul 8, 2013

This is all new to us, but we had planned on 15 inch rowes, if correct about 140,000 per acre.

GordoSD · Jul 9, 2013

Is this for a food plot or are you doing this hoping to make money?
Your planter MANUAL will tell you the pop for different row spacing.

Fergienewbee · Jul 9, 2013

Are you sure you have the right plate? Sounds like it is dropping multiples. Using 18 seeds per foot in 15" rows according to Dickey-john conversion charts your are planting around 640,000. Does a 494 use sprockets or some other gearing to determine seed spacing?

Larry

paul · Jul 9, 2013

That makes a big difference. As the planter was designed with 30 inch rows, you may need to get a special sprocket to slow down to half the seed rate.

10 - 14 is a common spacing at 30 inch, so you need to cut that in half, 5-7 beans per foot. Probably on the 7 side....

Your planter has 2 places to adjust seed rate, as well as different plates. I've not used one so can't help you specificly.

A manual for a planter, baler, or combine is a very, very, very good investment........

Paul

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