Planter adjustments

2025 National No-Tillage Conference

Optimize Your Planter for No-Till Success

November 22, 2024

Growing up in Northeast Ohio, Clay Scott learned early on how planter adjustments — or the lack thereof — can make or break a growing season.

Conservation Ag Update

Last-Minute Planter Prep for No-Tillers & Strip-Tillers

By Noah Newman posted on April 19, 2024

On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Martin-Till, precision specialist Chad Baker, co-owner of Baker Precision Planter Works in Orangeville, Ill., helps a first-generation no-tiller with planter setup, and later encounters a couple problems with a strip-tiller’s new 24-row planter. Plus, veteran agronomist Brad Forkner checks in with a couple tips for farmers to keep in mind before they take the field.

Sponsored Content: Planter Maintenance with Precision Planting

Aligning and Adjusting Your Closing Wheels

October 1, 2021 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Equipment

Source: Precision Planting

The closing system at the back of your planter's row units is a key factor in getting good crop emergence. Once the seeds are placed in the furrow, it’s important that the closing system is in proper condition to close the furrow with good seed-to-soil contact. The Planter Maintenance series is brought to you by Precision Planting.

Putting Faith in No-Till into Action

Tom Cannon has turned around his family’s farm by parking the plow, increasing rotational diversity and bringing livestock back into the picture.

By John Dobberstein posted on July 29, 2017 | Posted in Cover Crops, Equipment, Residue Management

Tom Cannon has turned around his family’s farm by parking the plow, increasing rotational diversity and bringing livestock back into the picture.

Adjusting Equipment for Tough Corn Stalks

November 2, 2015 | Posted in Equipment

Minnesota grower Ed McNamara explains how the turbo coulter on his planter does a better job of cutting through corn residue and preventing residue from hairpinning, as well as how the Calmer BT Chopper rolls prevent tire damage from tough corn stalks and aids in faster residue breakdown.

No-Till Notes

Managing Residue In Narrower Corn Rows

Properly size upper stalks, leave lower stalk standing, move trash with row cleaners and plant between old rows for great stands

By Jim Leverich posted on February 1, 2010 | Posted in Residue Management, Precision Agriculture

Managing residue in any no-till system can be a challenge with today’s high-yielding transgenic hybrids.

Spring 2009, Take Two In 2010

Experts offer advice for no-tillers once again contending with a slew of issues this spring stemming from a late, wet harvest

By Martha Ostendorf posted on February 1, 2010 | Posted in Crop Protection, Residue Management

Déjà vu. No-tillers probably felt it this fall as they battled rain and then raced to beat the snow getting crops harvested, just like 2008.

What I've Learned from No-Tilling

No-Till Is An Easier Way To Plant

In addition to reducing erosion on highly erodible soils, long-time northern Indiana no-tillers have found that two properly equipped planters and a self-propelled sprayer make them highly effective.

By Ron Ross posted on September 1, 2009 | Posted in Equipment

There’s a lot of highly erodible land and many small fields in LaGrange County, Ind.

What I've Learned from No-Tilling

No-Till Slashes Costs, Helps You Expand

After economics got this father-and-son team into no-till, they found many other benefits.

By Ron Ross and Allen Berry posted on June 1, 2004

When you look at our operation today, it’s difficult to believe that my dad, Eugene Berry, was a big fan of moldboard plowing. In fact, I even bought a new tractor and plow myself as recently as 1985. We were still plowing corn stalks, chiseling and field cultivating soybean ground until 1990.

What I've Learned from No-Tilling

A Permanent No-Till Is The Only Way to Go!

Spending an extra $12 per acre on fertilizer resulted in $60 to $80 more income with no-tilled corn.

By Ron Ross and Mike Wolpert posted on June 1, 2003 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

It took me almost 12 years to learn that you can’t dabble with no-tilling. You either have to commit 100 percent or forget about it.

Articles Tagged with ''planter adjustments''

Optimize Your Planter for No-Till Success

Last-Minute Planter Prep for No-Tillers & Strip-Tillers

Aligning and Adjusting Your Closing Wheels

Putting Faith in No-Till into Action

Adjusting Equipment for Tough Corn Stalks

Managing Residue In Narrower Corn Rows

Spring 2009, Take Two In 2010

No-Till Is An Easier Way To Plant

No-Till Slashes Costs, Helps You Expand

A Permanent No-Till Is The Only Way to Go!

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