Just wanting to talk with someone who has used their planter with Kinze brush meters to put in fall cover crops - cereal rye. I know people are doing it, just would like to find some guys who have done it. My soybean planter (John Deere 7000) is a splitter with 15 inch rows, no-till, and uses the Kinze brush meter. 15" rows are suitable for cover crops according to the NRCS. Here are my questions?
1) How do you set the planter sprockets to apply the right amount of seed? Someone told me you would want 700,000 to 800,000 seeds per acre (cereal rye)?? If 5 seeds would fit into a cell it would be like setting the bean meters to something like 150,000 soybeans per acre. I was told to keep the speed down as the cells might not fill as well as a soybean would.
2) Backer plates are available for sale to fill the holes on the Kinze plates. Are they necessary?
3) How deep are you trying to plant the cereal rye?
4) What plates are you using - the black ones or blue ones?
5) Any other advice will be appreciated. This year I am only primarily putting cover crops on corn stalk ground.
Thanks
1) How do you set the planter sprockets to apply the right amount of seed? Someone told me you would want 700,000 to 800,000 seeds per acre (cereal rye)?? If 5 seeds would fit into a cell it would be like setting the bean meters to something like 150,000 soybeans per acre. I was told to keep the speed down as the cells might not fill as well as a soybean would.
2) Backer plates are available for sale to fill the holes on the Kinze plates. Are they necessary?
3) How deep are you trying to plant the cereal rye?
4) What plates are you using - the black ones or blue ones?
5) Any other advice will be appreciated. This year I am only primarily putting cover crops on corn stalk ground.
Thanks