Kinze brush meter is so simple but does an amazing job... We used them to plant cotton, grain sorghum, and soybeans and they worked magnificently. Sure beat the old flat plates we'd been using before then on our old Deere #18 planter. Probably the best plate technology was in a Cole planter that my Granddad ended up getting as part of a deal on a mid-70's Case David Brown tractor deal, where they threw the planter in with it. It used twin inclined plates at the front of the hopper operating at about a 45 degree angle off vertical. The two cast iron plates rotated in opposite directions, separated into a right and left hand half of the hopper. Seed came down from the rear bulk part of the hopper under some little flat metal baffle plates with a roughly 1x3 inch slot at the bottom, that allowed a seed pool to form down at the bottom of the inclined plate in each half of the hopper. The inclined plate then turned down through the seed pool, seed would drop into the slots in the plate (seed cells) and then would rotate slowly upwards toward the top. The cells were designed so that by the time the seed rotated to the top, only one seed could basically fit into the cell, the rest would have dropped out and back down into the seed pool by gravity. The cells were slightly tapered to the rear so that as the inclined plate rotated, the slightly cupped plate (similar to the Deere "radial bean meter" shape of their seed disk) would go from the seed cells being almost horizontal at the bottom where seed filled the cells from the seed pool, to almost vertical at the top edge, with the single seed trapped in the cell by the slightly rearward tapered cell edge. This forced multiples to drop out because only one seed could (theoretically) fit into the cell by the time it got to the top of its travel. The plate would then rotate just past the top center and a hole in the backing frame behind the plate allowed the seed to drop out of the plate and down the funnel delivering seed to the sword opener. Each plate was gear driven off a common shaft and timed to drop alternately left, right, left, right continuously. This ensured even spacing. Having TWO plates per row meant that the plate speed was halved compared to regular plate planters, since each plate was only metering half the seed for that row. This meant two 48 cell milo plates, for instance, was turning the same speed as a 96 cell milo plate, which would be too big to fit into any plate planter, so there were no 96 cell plates. Corn plates with 12 cells could turn at half the speed of a 24 cell plate. Both flat and round corn seed plates were available (and luckily I went on a hunt when I was a teenager and managed to get a full set of the inclined plates for the Cole planter). The biggest downfall of the design was that it delivered seed from both plates about 4 inches off the row center, so a metal funnel connected the two backing plates behind the seed plates, to direct seed coming from the openings in the backing plate where the seed dropped out of the seed plate, down by gravity towards a common plastic/rubber seed tube... this promoted a lot of seed bounce and a "dead drop" straight down the rubber tube which dropped straight down inside a steel boot to the sword opener, so the seed hit the ground at a pretty good clip as the planter was moving across the field, creating a lot of seed bounce/roll, all of which killed accuracy. The upside was, if you wanted to plant double rows, you could get an "individual plate" funnel kit that replaced the single big funnel with two mini funnels, directing each plate's seed to its own individual seed tube, then add another sword opener and covering shovel, which the lower frame was designed to take... so you could split row plant quite easily if you bought the extra parts and installed them on the row units. The other big downside was that the planter used old style "blackland" row units with a large gauge wheel followed by a big V sweep, followed by the sword opener, and a pair of covering shovels. The hoppers were mounted on their own brackets off the tool bar, and stayed stationary to the tool bar, while the opener units below were on parallel arms and could flex up and down with terrain. This ensured the plates always got a "smooth ride" while the row units could flex and bounce over terrain and clods, rootballs, etc. Of course this also meant that the seed tube which telescoped inside the boot down to the seed opener got longer and shorter as the row unit flexed up and down, which didn't help accuracy either. If the twin plate system had come out maybe 5-10 years before, and had been incorporated into early designs of the double-disk opener with side-mount gauge wheels and twin closing wheels, it would have been contemporary planters like the Deere 71 Flexi or 494 or the similar IH 400 units all to pieces for accuracy... particularly had they incorporated a curved seed tube to achieve "zero drop" into the furrow... Might have prolonged the era of the plate planter another 10-20 years... who knows. As it was, the move to double-disk openers and sidemount gauge wheels with V closing wheels revolutionized planter opener design, and when coupled with the finger meter's capability for superior corn metering, it was unbeatable. Even IH's Cyclo drum type air planter, while capable of singulating seed quite well, was hamstrung by its long seed hoses delivering the seed to the openers introducing spacing errors. Allis Chalmers had a large vertical plate air system IIRC that dropped seed almost directly into the furrow using a double disk and single press/gauge wheel arrangement similar to a 71 Flexi row unit IIRC as well, and then White came out with their own air vertical seed disk meter similar to the later vacuum meters. The finger meter coupled with the Deere 7000 series planters became the standard that everybody else copied, over time. Problem was, finger meters were basically designed to do the job of singulating and delivering the roughly "teardrop" shaped corn and sunflower seeds, relatively large seed planted at relatively low populations, and wasn't really that adaptable to handling seeds of various shapes like large round soybean seed or small round milo seed, or small teardrop shaped cotton seed, very well, nor of handling high populations which would require the meter to turn much faster, requiring slower ground speeds of the planter to keep the meter turning at the 'sweet spot' in terms of meter speed in order to meter accurately. SO, needing a way to seed soybeans with the same planter in corn/soybean rotations throughout the Midwest, Deere came out with their 'bean cup' meters, which they also sold to southern farmers in a more common corn/cotton rotation or planting some grain sorghum acres as well, which was very common at the time. The other choice was a 7000 or 7100 planter with regular PLATE bottom hoppers and plate drive conversions, which had a metal bracket that attached to the top of the row unit and replaced the finger meter/cup meter drive sprocket with a separate drive sprocket on a shaft sticking out of the bracket turning on bearings or bushings, which turned a small bevel gear turning a larger bevel gear identical to that on a 71 Flexi plate type meter, and which used 71 Flexi style flat plate bottoms with the interchangeable rings and plates, which dropped the seed down a chute in the bracket that delivered it to the seed tube. This allowed Deere to sell the 7000/7100 planters with plate bottoms capable of seeding cotton, grain sorghum, soybeans, or corn using old style plastic seed plates, or equipping the plate bottoms with dome-and-gate style peanut meters in place of the plate bottom in the same hopper. OR one could get the plateless hoppers and plateless clutch drives that replaced the plate drive bracket on the unit shank, and install finger meters and "bean cups" for planting everything other than corn. Swapping between the two is possible (I converted the 7100 I bought from a dome-plate peanut planter to plateless Kinze brush meters with a set of used hoppers and used Kinze brush meters and bought a set of plateless drive clutches for each row to replace the plate hopper bottom drives). It would be a BIG job to swap the planter from a corn finger meter to bottom plate meters in-season though-- MUCH bigger job that swapping out finger meters for "bean cups" when switching between corn and other crops like beans, cotton, or milo. BUT if you were planting a lot of cotton and milo, you'd greatly prefer the metering from plates over "bean cups" even with the milo or cotton cups installed, and just had to live with the problems of plate planting corn... The Kinze brush meter allowed you do to BOTH and do a terrific job, whether using the finger meter for corn or the brush meter to singulate cotton, sorghum, and soybeans with great accuracy...
I dont agree with the comment regarding where fungicides are applied it breaks down faster, maybe he miss-spoke, but anywhere we MISS a fungicide on corn, the residue breaks down MUCH faster.
Ryan uses two pounds of compost per acre to make 5 gallons of compost extract. He talks more about his rates and the process of making the extract in this podcast: www.no-tillfarmer.com/articles/12755-podcast-rebuilding-no-till-soils-microbiome-with-compost-extract-part-1
Seems like I visited you at your farm around40 years ago all the way from Kansas near Emmaus. But it may have been nearer 50 years ago. Been so long I forget seeds I bought at your farm. Must have been hairy vetch though.....I never did get them worked into my rotation. I bought parts for I and J roller a few years back and completed welding it together later. Time flies. Dennis. PS WE GETTING A NICE RAIN NOW.
@@NoTillFarmer ok. I was hoping you would have a definitive cure. I never had the problem until last year. I have only a home garden so I was hoping there was a product that would be ok for an organic garden. Right now, I go out every morning with a salt shaker!
@@debbiesorganicgarden We have some prior coverage on slugs as well that may be of interest. Feel free to sift through and see if anything here applies more directly to what you'd be looking for: www.no-tillfarmer.com/search?q=slugs
The info for Hoorman Soil Health is wrong. I had to look it up with google. I am an organic gardener and have a RU-vid channel. Thanks for your info. Are your products ok for organic gardens?
In the field, you learn from your mistakes than your triumph. But not often, as that is not very motivating, failing season-season, and never learning. My take away.
Ray thinks it's possible to get untreated GMO seed, but you should ask your seed dealer. He says GMO has nothing to do with the treatment, but untreated non-GMO is used in organic, so it may be more available than untreated GMO.
Lol, farmers and rangers, the slowest of all people to change. I live in MO. Cattle country, and maybe see 1 out of 100 that will do mob grazing to improve their soils to absorb the rain and raise more cattle in the same space.
What’s a good cover crop following corn. We get most of corn harvested in November and then graze them during the winter. Would you suggest planting an early spring cover crop and then terminate before planting in April? Thanks
Invasive Stink bug natural local predators: pill bugs and praying mantis. I encourage and see praying mantis (and huge spiders) by including barrier rows or interseeding of Buckwheat. I found that spiders and mantis are protectors against a Japanese Beetle infestation I had. Buckwheat also increases Phosphorous available in the soil.
Very similar with my timber soil and NWSG just 12 years since a till and it’s building topsoil slowly but surely while providing a biodiversity of plants and animals…just feels really good! Nice video!
Multi species cover corp......10 - 15 different species based on seasonal applications ..... GABE BROWN is the premier farmer in application and history
I look forward to hearing more on this issue and using strip till to fend against it; You are the one who opened my eyes up to nutrient stratification last year. We've been no-tilling corn for about 8 years on soybean stubble and like you said, just broadcast a lot of N (ESN) & K out overtop of the ground and hoping the best from Mother Nature. We also strip-till with a knife unit, putting stablized 28% in the ground (8" deep), but only on previous year's winter wheat...then clover cover crop ground (all burnt down fall prior to planting). Soybeans we broadcast NPK and lightly disk or VT in then air-seed with JD 1990ccs. 1/2 of our acres is only a corn soybean rotation that strictly gets no-tilled corn and light till pre-planting soybeans....so this is the ground I'm most concerned with nutrient stratification. Thanks for your research and sharing.
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I think it should be an owner/operator exemption. If somebody starts a business and decides he has the capability to run three at once he should be allowed to. However, Nutrien and other large retailers shouldn't be able to force some random yahoo that's doing good to fly one without messing it up to attempt to fly 3.
Ryan uses a 30 mesh screen on the sprayer with XtendiMax high-volume tips. He says the compost extract does settle and needs to be agitated. The spray pump doesn't appear to damage the organisms because Ryan says he's seeing positive results from foliar applying the extract onto his crops. He goes in-depth about the extract process, application and benefits in this 2-part podcast episode if you're interested in learning more about it: www.no-tillfarmer.com/articles/12755-podcast-rebuilding-no-till-soils-microbiome-with-compost-extract-part-1
Wooohaaaa. The fungi description @ 16,50 doesn't correlate with what I have been taught, the fungal tip is around 5:1, and can be up to 1000:1 in the older hyphae, and they don't eat bacteria, they consume complex carbon/woody material/high C material. And fuck the god bullshit and your product
How about the elephant in the room? What will the fines $ and associated jail time be for possible infractions? Regulatory agencies of government don't make rules, without associated punishments for violating them.
