Row Spancing

[JDGreen]

I spoke with Morris about the 7.5/15 concept furrow with their razor drill.. It's something they are looking at.

[furrowtickler]

That's the main reasons we did the paired row as well Klause . I don't like running high populations in a narrow seed row for the exact reasons you said. I would like to see a 14 or 15 in machine with 3 to 4 inch paired row for wheat then plug one row for canola at around 3.5 to 4 lbs/ac.
I dry springs I may kick myself for moving too much soil in the seed row but overall it may have a lot of merrit ?

JD - that will be interesting to see - someone will make it work .

[hobbyfrmr]

Ado, dont't do it, there is no money in it.
Keep what you have, upgrade your sprayer.

[Hamloc]

I read an interesting article describing seed placement acurracy with canola using a dutch low draft opener with three inch spread. On one field they put the seed out the twin row and the other they reversed it and put it down the center. The single row down the center had more even germination and much less fluctuation in seeding depth. The agronomist's opinion was the soil was fractured more by the wings of the tooth and that the seed shooting out each side gave less accurate placement. I seeded my peas down the fert tubes this year on my dutch low fraft worked very well. I realize peas germ good but I liked the single row better than the twin row the previous year. Both on 10 inch centers.

[farmaholic]

Hamloc. We were using those openers and I didn't like the canola emergence at all when we placed the seed using the paired row, I never tried using the fert tube. The fert option would have to be dry for this to work. Part of our success now might be the fact we are getting most of the fert about 5 inches away from the seed. We are now using a Dutch 2 inch spread knife, but I think the independent shank is still contributing a lot to the establishment success.