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Mark Poss

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Couple pictures of corn

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My dad was always proud of how straight this checked corn rows were. I did a good share of the cultivating but he always did the cross rows of the checked corn himself. It took a lot of concentration and quick steering.
 
Brings back memories of what my dad's corn fields looked like. Someplace I have a metal rod for holding the check wire.
 
I barely remember dad checking corn. He gave it up in 1960 or so. North of Sioux City maybe 10 miles on the west side of hwy 75 there was a farmer who checked his corn long after everyone went away from it. I always enjoyed driving by that field. I am thinking he still checked into the 1980's. Do any of you guys from that area remember him or seeing that field?
 
I was visiting with an older farmer about check planting Saturday, he told me that the angle of check planted corn was 28 row so he had it combined with a 30 head. Mark, would you measure yours? I would like to try my hand with check wire planting on 1 acre next spring.
 
Two kernals are just right per hill, 1 is not enough to get a good yield, and three is to many kernals, usually, the ears are all too small, for a good yield! that's in the owners !
 
I remember Pa hill dropping with the old 490 planter but I don't remember checking corn. I know he did but I was to young to remember.
So when you do the cross cultivating you must have to move the shovels out because no one can get it that perfect.
 
Thank you for the post. At 72 years old,I have never seen check row planting,and would like to see it done.
My dad used to talk about doing it,so they could cultivate both ways.
 
Looks good!! Not that I could do any better, but when the old guys did that, the rows were straight at all angles. I'm sure it take a lot of practice to get them straight, but it's nice to see and if careful, I'll bet you could cultivate those rows. You get an Atta Boy for even attempting to check row corn.
 
that is not the best job cause the hills arent in perfect line. Those farmers when all corn was checked did a great job its all in setting the . My DADs team were so good they would hear the wire being disconnected at the planter would turn around and wait for Dad to jump on the seat to go as he would jump off as soon as the wire was released from the planter and grab the stake while the horses made the turn and stopped by that time he had the stake moved and was back in the seat ready to go. Me at 12 with the new B with exhaust lift started cultivating as Dad hated the job. In 49 got a new 290 and then used the B then two yrs later a new 490 what a sweet rig hill dropping with the B.
 
I remember Dad planting with the wire, check row planting. His #490 was new spring of '52, first 4-row around. About '60-'61 he gave up using the wire and checking corn. He still hill dropped till '70 was the last year. He planted beans for the first time in '71, so everything was drilled from then on.
 
I recall as a kid in flatland Iowa seeing many fields planted like this. Today, never. There's something symmetrically beautiful about such plantings. Thanks for sharing the photos.
 
The either dropped three and some dropped four In 40inch rows the # of kernals in 40 inches times 4,000 gave you the plant population
 
My father had a JD999 check row planter and we planted with horses.Also had fertilizer attachment and a bean box (didn't work when checking). I remember helping move the check wire at each turn around . We later took off the front wheel and converted to 3-pt behind a Ford Jubilee which we narrowed to 42" for wheel track planting ,but no longer ckecked as we raised population and started spraying atrazine 14" over the rows to aid grass control and need less cultivation.
 
For you guys who are more familiar with a 290 or 490 planter wasnt there a transmission that could be shifted? Dad told me when he came to a sandy hill he would stop and shift the planter transmission to a lower population. I was 16 years old when dad quit using the 490. He never let me plant so I was not very familiar with the planter at that time.
 
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