Equipment prices out to lunch!

[Hopperbin]

Free wheat I would like to know what type of product you are putting down in the mid row? If you are using liquid that could be the problem but for the life of me I don't know why anyone would use liquid in a midrow band.

[freewheat]

Hopper, I'm doing nh3. I feel like I missed some opportunity, crop is late, but we're in a lucky area so far. I'm quite angry about it. I have seen strippy conditions in the days of banding with the old 12" cultivator under very wet conditions, but the conditions were ideal at seeding, I didn't skimp, and there were no strips, just the whole field was pale. Neighbor who puts maybe 60 lbs year in year out has green crops this year. He is on 10 inch spacing...Frustrating.I am not used to having poorer crops for our area, but here I am this year...

[cchurch]

SF3,

have you inquired about the early booking discount program. they had it this spring, i heard they might be bring it back. supposedly you are suppost to be able to save 10% or something.

[Hopperbin]

I can suggest just wait till harvest.
Not likely your 12 inch space is costing you according to my experience in my soil zone. Black the roots do grow well here. You will see rows in the field but also at the time your crop is trying to put up heads your crop has opportunity to grow which I think translates into bushels. My 2 cents

[SASKFARMER3]

That price is with the early order discount etc. Funny each price quote is coming in at close to same value. The problem with the anhydrous further away we saw years back always caught up in fall. we now dump a blend with the seed faster start up till crop hits gas. now yes this drill has everything duals are huge option.

[checking]

Best quote I ever heard from a machinery salesman was, "I never run any farmer's choice of equipment down because the first thing that will happen is I"ll have that piece of shit on my lot to sell as a trade in." I know the seed is toast with 200bs of NH3 applied with a hawk, and 80lbs is no problem, but does anyone know the cut off point?

[cottonpicken]

The crop just got better faster,which is a pretty big deal.


I think with graular it was just taking to long to get to the nutrient.Anhydrous probably moves quicker and Sask is right idealy you would put nutrient with the seed and midrow the rest.

One solution would be to buy another tank to accomplish this.

[SASKFARMER3]

We use to use a boot that put the gas lower than the seed and seed on either side. 100lbs per acre of actual and wow what a problem. You think the frost kicked the canola and cereals you should have seen that year. We had experts that told us it would work. This was back in 1995 1997 it did sort of in 95 and 96 but then 97 was a interesting year. Had Canola reseeded on July 1 it made it that year. Remember gas was way cheaper back then.

[cchurch]

Just for curiosity, is that the 6550 tank or the 6700?

[SASKFARMER3]

It pays to shop around just trimmed 54,000 off the latest bid from the highest bid. everything equal on deal. Duals,cart plus drill front back conveyor dual fan blockage all and boots. Local mega dealer will crap. Big tow between need back for anhydrous cart. You get stuck way less with tow between.
Still one bid to come in. And that's delivered set up to farm. We hook on and seed. Not ps away a week setting up.