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Inquiring mind

03-12-2005 15:43:17




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The Mrs. would like a little field of sunflowers and I thought I would plant them with my Oliver drill. There"s no indication in the instructions one how to set it up for sunflowers, however. Would I be OK using the soybean setting?




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Dieselrider

03-13-2005 07:10:19




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 Re: drilling sunflowers in reply to Inquiring mind, 03-12-2005 15:43:17  
What about a corn planter? Do you have one and why would'nt that work?



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riverbend

03-13-2005 06:52:59




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 Re: drilling sunflowers in reply to Inquiring mind, 03-12-2005 15:43:17  
Your grain drill has a setting for soybeans ? I think that would put them in a little too thick. Soybeans usually go in at about 2 bu. per acre. I think that sunfowers only go in at about 5 lb. per acre on 30" to 36" rows. If you do use a drill, it will have to be open enough to keep from breaking he seed.



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Inquiring Mind

03-13-2005 18:02:10




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 Re: drilling sunflowers in reply to riverbend, 03-13-2005 06:52:59  
Yep, shows a setting for soybeans and cowpeas. I should have specified it's an old one with steel wheels.



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riverbend

03-13-2005 18:54:38




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 Re: drilling sunflowers in reply to Inquiring Mind, 03-13-2005 18:02:10  
Any idea how old it actually is ? Does it have quarts and pecks, or bushels on the adjustment ?

If the rate is set by changing the speed of the metering shaft, it should work. Some guys block up some of the feeds to get a wider spacing with a drill. Between that and a slow rate, you could get close. Try it in your field road and see what you get for seed spacing. With wider spacing, one difficulty could be weeds in between the rows unless you can cultivate.

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Tim(nj)

03-13-2005 17:50:07




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 Re: drilling sunflowers in reply to riverbend, 03-13-2005 06:52:59  
Oliver drills can plant sunflowers without damaging seed because they change rate by changing the speed the feedcup shaft is rotating, not by opening or closing the hole, the way a JD drill does. Sorry I don"t know what setting to use, though.



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