Colin, If the planter is in good shape and free of rust, then it should serve you well for a few years. When you buy your seed corn have the seed dealer help you with the plates to be needed. If he knows nothing about plates maybe consider a more knowledgeable dealer. You will need "sized seed", meaning you should not plant seed for plateless planters as those hybrids are a mix of whatever seed sizes the seed company needs to put together for any given year. DO NOT let seed size influence
you in any way regarding yield....all seed from a given hybrid are the same for vigor, standability, yield, etc. There is no validity to the notion that sized seed yields less than plateless seed or vice versa.
Please get an Operator's Manual if you do not have one. The manual will show you which "driver sprocket" needs to be aligned with a certain "driven sprocket" to attain the plant population you want. Without that knowledge, you are "flying blind". A poorly planted field will haunt you all season.
When first starting to plant, drive a short distance, get off the tractor, grab a knife or trowel and dig for the seeds you just planted to see what depth and how close together the seeds are. This little exercise can be very valuable and might stop you from making an expensive mistake on all of your acres. Your seed should be about 2-2 1/2 inches deep....if very dry then see if you can get the seed a little deeper to get to moisture. I suggest you not plant deeper than 3 inches.
Any other questions you might have we can help you. There is also a lot of poor advice available so you need to sort that all out.
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