Implements for Planting Corn

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Tip 1 - Check-Row Planting: By the Book

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Nicolas Fournier | permalink

Check-rowing was a method of planting where each hill of two, three or four seeds was exactly the same distance from adjoining hills.
Tags: check-row planting, check-rowing, check wire, check-row planter

For further reading: http://www.farmcollector.com/implements/check-row-planting-by-the-book.aspx ^[1]

Tip 2 - Check-row planting was a tricky technique

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Fredrik Soderberg | permalink

This description from a 1933 McCormick-Deering corn planter operator's manual shows how difficult running a check-row planter could be.
Tags: Corn Planter, Check Row Planter, Planting Corn, How To Plant Corn, McCormick-Deering Planter

For further reading: http://www.farmcollector.com/implements/tricky-check-row-corn-planters.aspx ^[2]

Tip 3 - Hydraulic Implement Gudiance Brings Profitability | ProTrakker

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Stray Bu I Iet | permalink

Guidance technology that keeps field implements in line is gaining momentum as no-tillers and strip-tillers see increased yields, and lower input costs.

For further reading: http://www.protrakker.com/news-and-events/05-01-13-implement-guidance-paves-the-way-to-profitability.aspx ^[3]