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JD 1770 NT CCS 16 row planter. got to start planting today, man is it weird running along a fence! I keep wanting to get too close..... it just feels wrong to be that far away from the end of the planter! averaged 25 acres an hour today, of course it took 4 hours to get it figured out!!

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Yeah.. Nice to have the big planters.. My neighbor has a huge one.. Pretty new, can't remember if it is Deere or Kinze (I think deere but still not sure).. That sucker really eats up the acres but he plants a lot of corn in a year (4000 or so acres) so he needs to run fast.. Might be a 24 row one, it folds, folds some more and than folds again, lol... Runs it behind 250hp challengers. .. Although he appears to be buying 8520's now, at least for his manure injection he is. Another guy has an air drill that does custom beans.. That sucker is... Just huge.

Some of this new farm equipment... Neighbor bought one of the new Deere combines too.. Just a 12 row head, not like the head they are putting on the Massey's and new Cat combines.. Hard to imagine, that equipment is getting bigger and bigger, and more expensive. Would hat to see how much it would cost to get this place set up if we weren't renting our crop ground out...
 
Yep, we have one field that I laugh when he uses his big equipment on.. I don't know how he turns around on it, 24 acres wrapped around 16 acres of woods.. The rest of the fiels are a little bigger..1/4 setions or 1/2 sections.... That is almost as big as you can get around here without a drainage ditch or road breaking up the field.
 
That's a lot of planter, Jigs. Needs a lots of room to work! Around here, a few of the big guys arfe pulling those and they keep a six or eight row for fields that won't accommodate the 16 or 24 row jobbies.

When I was cash-cropping, we had a 12 row and our oldest son got to drive it when he turned 12! I told him I wouldn't be able to afford the equpiment or the land anymore when he turned 24 if he needed a row for every year he aged!
 
we used to tun two 8 row rigs, but the past couple years the pulltype 8 row has given us fits... so this winter we did a little swapping..... it sure takes a little getting used to! I have an FSA meeting this morning, and the big boss man asked me to come in and teach him how to run it before I go.... I just had to get on it and figure it out.....

we were smart enough to start in a field that no body will see the errors until wheat harvest, and by then the corn ought to be tall enough that most errors will not be too visible....

man, do the neighbors REALLY slow down as they drive by!
 
Jigs you hateful thing...... We needed a little more warning so we don't slober all over ourselves!!!!

Naw...... Nice pictures of the kids.... They are growing..... And that is an awesome machine.........

We are disking some old alfalfla to plant to corn....
 
jingle bob....that would make me happy if everybody breaks up alfalfa because i just got into the hay business and that would help prices!! hah i just hope we have a good hay crop!
 
ep lot of alfalfa being tornup this year.Some pasture too but not much as the majority of pasture around here is really, really, awful ground. Pure sand or pure muk with an acre or two of good ground in the middle lol..

We don't have too much native pasture around here anymore, but it is increasing with some of the CRP and gov programs.. Will be interesting to see what these warm season grass pastures do...
 
did the frost get your hay Katrina?? mine was up about knee high, then boom, back to zero/.....

Mike, yes 30 inch rows
 
Only thing now that will make it better is AutoPilot. The farm that I help on, on my days off just put that to use this spring and it nice hard to get use't not holding on to the steering wheel, just flip it up and watch what is happening behind you for a change or read a magazine, dang sure not as tireing at the end of day
 
I do not use auto pilot. I get very straight rows. last year, as I was planting I saw four young indian braves hop out of the ditch and use my rows as a guide for making their arrows....guess they wanted them straight! I was amazed, not at them usig my rows as a guide, but that they were even there... they were only 4 foot tall, so I assumed they were part of the Fukarwe tribe, an indian nation long ago thought to have died out.
 

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