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E.B. Haymakin'

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Let"s say you are pulling a grain drill planting wheat, and you are finishing up the field at the headlands. How many passes would you make? Reason I question this is I was watching a local grain drill in winter wheat a few weeks back, and the operator made 3 passes on the headlands. In my mind this area was already covered some, but by the time his 12 to 14" drill was on the third pass he was in areas of the field that were well covered. Wouldn"t this make the seed population too high in these areas? Would it matter? At least this is not another post about the election, or the depressing economy.
 
I go along with those who plant the headlands first. Basically, I decide how much room I need to turn the planter and combine, and make the appropriate passes. Then, when planting the field, I can plant right up to where the headlands are planted. This makes the field look nice and even, saves seed without leaving any ground unplanted, and you can't tell the difference where you turned on the planted headlands.
 
When I grew wheat, (same for drilled soybeans) we used to make 2 passes with a 21-drop 8200, later a 23 drop 8300 JD; if you drove all the way out to the end before turning, 2 passes were enough. If the fields were the least bit irregular in shape (sometimes if they were not), we went round and round, cutting across each corner; usually took 3 passes to finish up each corner.
 
I always planted going around the field using a 12' grain drill. When you got the field done the corners were just 1 pass out and back, even when pulling a rollerharrow, grain drill, flex harrow and sprocket roller there were no bare spots....James
 
I agree with cornfarmer... headlands first, just like when you're harvesting the field... but I have no experience with a no-till drill.
 
It would depend on when or where the operator tripped the drill to stop the planting. He had most likely picked a groove made across the end by a fitting tool as a trip point to give him ample turning room. Some combinations of machines turn sharper than others. Wider track tractors would get into the drill quicker than narrower tractors.
 
I plant with a 30' drill, I make 2 passes on the headlands, that way when you turn its already planted and not packed
 
Depends on how wide the drill is and how much room needed to turn around. We make 3 or 4 rounds around edges first and leave drill in ground turning too. Here we graze cattle on winter wheat and the ends need to have more seed or by end of winter cattle will have the ends tromped out going around fences.
 
You can't hardly have too much wheat on your headland. It wont even be noticable. In fact he might get more yield where he planted more.
 
We plant with an old Van Brunt drill, trip lift, so we go round & round in circles. When on the inside, we go down & back on the corners and that pretty much gets it all. Sometimes there might be a small bare spot here & there but nothing too much.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
I generally go round and round with a drill, then run the corners with a pass out, then back in. IT would take too much time to play with headlands here given the odd shaped fields we generally have.

Rod
 
I do two passes unless there is room to turn off the field, then I do one or none. You need just over one width to make your turn, but if you have to make three passes to do the head lands you are wasting too much time and seed. I always lift the planter out when turning as with the wide gear we use, there are a number of tines beyond the the outer gauge wheels and if you turn too sharp, they move backwards and the seed boots get blocked with soil. with no-til, I do the headlands first, with conventional, I run "em off at the end.
 
Usually end up with 3 passes at the ends of the fields with our air seeder... takes a bit of room to turn this thing around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTDwUfOutaI

I always do the ends last so that none of the seeded ground has been driven over.

When we had the 28' of IH 7200 hoe drills it was two passes at the ends. And the 16' IH 100 disc drills we seeded around the field and finished out the corners with two passes.
 
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