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MANY CONFIGURATIONS. This 40-foot wide Great Plains no-till planter folds down to a 13 feet, 10 inch width for highway transport and carries a list price of $115,000.

No-Till Twin Rows Are Working!

During last summer’s Purdue University Top Farmer Crop Workshop, Great Plains Manufacturing demonstrated a new twin-row corn-and-soybean system.

Instead of running both a no-till planter and a no-till drill, this rig may let you no-till both corn and soybeans in narrower rows with less machinery cost.

Save Dollars

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The major twin-row advantage is that you don’t have to purchase a new combine corn head, says Tom Evans of Great Plains. With twin rows, he says that you’ll be able to harvest 7 1/2-inch, twin-rowed no-till corn with a 30-inch corn head.

By harvesting the same yields with twin rows as with 15- or 20-inch rows, you’ll save money by using your existing 30-inch row corn head. In addition, twin rows provide enough space between the rows to handle spraying and sidedressing tasks that prove tough to handle with 15- or 20-inch rows.

Evans says twin rows provide an ideal no-till plant spacing that results in considerably less ear loss. Still another plus is more effective light utilization on the bottom of corn plants with twin rows compared to 15-inch rows. But if you expect to harvest higher yields with twin rows, it will take more fertility.

By mounting a singulator-plus meter close to the ground on a new ultra-narrow row unit, Great Plains has found an ideal way to provide accurate seed spacing with no-tilled corn and beans in 7 1/2-inch twin rows. Parallel linkage openers minimize opener bounce and improve seed placement.

One-Pass Seeding, Fertilizing

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Frank Lessiter

Frank Lessiter founded Lessiter Media in 1981 and has spent more than 50 years in the agricultural and equine publishing business. He still oversees all of the company's publications as Chairman and Editorial Director, with an Emphasis on American Farriers Journal and No-Till Farmer magazines.

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