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Suggested row size planters implements for hobby farm?

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Shep

02-08-2001 09:31:37




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Drive an Oliver 550 Dsl and AC D10. Planning to go to Dothan, AL auction to look at 2-row equipment.

What would you consider efficient row planters & implements for 25 acre hobby farm (U-PICK). This way I don't have to harvest, plant & care for it. Planning on blue berries, black berry?, corn, beans, squash, okra, spuds, tomatoes, pumpkin & pasture for freezer beef/hog.




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Halbert

02-14-2001 20:45:26




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 Re: Suggested row size planters implements for hobby farm? in reply to Shep, 02-08-2001 09:31:37  
You've go a mixed bag. Pumpkins, squash = 1 row from seeds, tomatoes = 1 row from transplants, berries= plant 1 row by hand on a few acres, corn and beans you need a two row planter for seeds. You might be able to use the 2-row planter for 1-row crops. Forget about 4-row equipment unless you pick it up cheap for corn and beans. You could plant 4-rows and then still use a 2-row cultivator. Think plastic for tomatoes and squash. UPick might eliminate harvest labor, but not planting and care. Good luck.

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Aaron

02-08-2001 17:18:43




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 Re: Suggested row size planters implements for hobby farm? in reply to Shep, 02-08-2001 09:31:37  
I'd go with 4 row equipment. If it's going to be U-pick, then I'd go with wider row widths, 36" or wider. That will let your custmers get down the rows with baskets and whatnot with less chance of damaging the rest of the crop.
Aaron



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planzman

02-09-2001 05:40:38




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 Re: Re: Suggested row size planters implements for hobby farm? in reply to Aaron, 02-08-2001 17:18:43  
just one word. Plastic. I have seen photos of one row plastic layers being pulled by just about anything, horses, small tractors etc. If you are going to go the up pick route, plastic rows covers, drip irrigation, this system should be more economical over the long run. You might be able to cobble one together to lay the platic and dip hoses. I would also investigate the use of a plastic roll up machine to clean up the fields after the harvest.

just a thought, that is what I am gonna do.

planz

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