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When they built this planter, they built it with the farmer in mind, and it
is a very impressive outfit. It doesn’t take a whole lot to adapt from a
different color planter to a Great Plains. If you have any planter experience at
all, you’d fall right into this planter and be quite happy with the way it
performs.

In 10 minutes you can have the planter filled and ready to go. You couldn’t
begin to do that, filling individual hoppers. Adjustments and rate settings are
simple and straight forward, as is calibrating and loading the planter to go to
the field.

Great Plains uses Precision Planting Systems finger meters for corn. These
meters throw a perfect drop which really makes this machine outstanding. Twin
rows spread the seeds farther apart in the row than seeds in 30” rows and there
is 8” between each twin. When you time meters to stagger the seeds in each set
of twin rows the seeds are not right across from each other which gives each
plant even more room to grow. In twin row corn you will notice that the twin row
root mass and twin row stalk diameter are significantly larger than corn in 30”
rows.

In our corn fields we have noticed from 7 to 11 bushel/acre increase over
single 30” rows in side-by-side comparisons over the last couple of years.

With twin row soybeans I don’t plant as thick as I used to. We used to plant
180,000 to 200,000 seeds/acre and I am now planting 150,000 to 160,000
seeds/acre. I’ve saved a little on seed cost and I’m still getting the yields
that I got before. 

It’s (twin-row) a step toward the future and the neighbors are going to
wonder what you did and you will be reaping the benefits of a higher yield.