corn planter opinions

Don Rudolph

Well-known Member
Looking to upgrade from 4 rows to 6, currently use a New Idea/Kinze planter. Which is better, JD 7200 or Kinze 3000? Thanks for your input.
 
KINZE. I broke spring that controls pressure on rear closing wheels. Going to get Kinze parts passed a JD dealer, so I stopped. Bought 2 new springs $24 each. Next time at Kinze dealer asked about springs-$5 each!! Said he would have painted them green for me. Lesson learned.
 
I've used a JD 7200 for 19 years and had some problems with lift cylinders ,markers ,and seed monitor ,but main concern has been changing and updating it to better plant no-till into growing cover crop and apply pop up and side dress fertilizer in one pass. B asic repair of wear parts is about the same as Kinze and up dating to floating row cleaners and finger closing wheels is $700-800/row . Adding automatic down pressure ,$1500-2000/row.
 
I have a no til double frame New Idea Kinze 4row corn, 7 row bean with dry fertilizer. Been toying with adding 1 more bean unit on each side, but, then I'd be done sooner and have less fun. I have this planter for15 years, couple thousand acres altogether, no issues except the monitor, but I can go without that. Most no til planters here are JD, both have the heavy frame , but the set back inter row units on the NI goes through heavy trash better.

Ben
 
I will need to up date to 6 row soon.Own a 7000 4 row (bought from retired farmer it had only planted about 400 acres) Next planter will a 7200 with heavy frame.
 

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