Posted by James22 on December 08, 2009 at 08:43:21 from (207.179.239.188):
In Reply to: Planter Questions posted by Erik Ks Farmer on December 07, 2009 at 18:37:56:
A planter and sprayer are the most important pieces of machinery if you raise conventional corn. If organic, then only the planter and very timely tillage passes. Seems a more likely range would be $2500 to $4500 for a good 7000 or a CIH 900. A CIH 800 could probably be bought for under $2500, at least in this area.
Seed spacing is not as important as seed depth control which is a must if you don't have perfectly flat fields. However this assumes you have a planter which doesn't continuely drop multiple seeds. If you have a planter that does this poor of seed singulation, then something is definitely wrong and needs fixed or adjusted.
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