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Question from not-a-farmer. Is this all corn and/or wheat? What does such tech look like for non-corn/non-wheat related crops?

ojame 7y ago
It looks relatively the same, can be similar (or more, or less) amount of screens. It all depends on what what model the tractor is (some only need one screen for control) and what attachments you have on. Some attachments have one or two screens, some have none. Even if you're in livestock, you have a screen for the tractor, likely screen for GPS guidance too. Perhaps a screen for stock management across fields etc.
tonyarkles 7y ago
She has another video with soybeans and it's a pretty similar process. She said they adjusted a couple of things but were using the same tractor and seeder.
- abledon 7y ago
  link for her soybean planting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpJ2Xe_cyeU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpJ2Xe_cyeU
nas 7y ago
She is using a "planter". That is a quite expensive and complicated machine. It's used for crops that have expensive seeds or very precise planting requirements. Corn seed is expensive and a significant cost of growing the crop. So, you want to make the best use of the seed. A planter will meter out seeds one at a time and place them a fixed distance apart in the seed rows. Seed depth is also carefully controlled. Corn will yield better if plants are optimally spaced in the row. Less sophisticated seeding equipment (e.g. air drill, air seeder) will randomly space out seeds in the row. For lower cost seeds like wheat, that's typically good enough and it is a simpler machine. Another difference is that planters typically have wider row spacings. For corn, that's not a problem because the plants want more space. However, for cereal crops like wheat, ideally the spacing should be smaller. Typically spacing for wheat might be 8 to 10 inches but even narrower might give optimal yield. To get narrow spacing, you need more seed rows and those get expensive given the complexity of the planter system (high cost per seed row). In area she is farming, corn and soybeans are the major crops. There are a bunch of other field crops they might grow. Wheat is one but there are many others. Example planter manufacturer (lots of other companies make them): https://www.monosem.com/Products/Planter/Monoshox-NG-Plus-M https://www.monosem.com/Products/Planter/Monoshox-NG-Plus-M

ojame 7y ago

It looks relatively the same, can be similar (or more, or less) amount of screens. It all depends on what what model the tractor is (some only need one screen for control) and what attachments you have on. Some attachments have one or two screens, some have none. Even if you're in livestock, you have a screen for the tractor, likely screen for GPS guidance too. Perhaps a screen for stock management across fields etc.

tonyarkles 7y ago

She has another video with soybeans and it's a pretty similar process. She said they adjusted a couple of things but were using the same tractor and seeder.

abledon 7y ago
link for her soybean planting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpJ2Xe_cyeU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpJ2Xe_cyeU

nas 7y ago

She is using a "planter". That is a quite expensive and complicated machine. It's used for crops that have expensive seeds or very precise planting requirements. Corn seed is expensive and a significant cost of growing the crop. So, you want to make the best use of the seed. A planter will meter out seeds one at a time and place them a fixed distance apart in the seed rows. Seed depth is also carefully controlled. Corn will yield better if plants are optimally spaced in the row. Less sophisticated seeding equipment (e.g. air drill, air seeder) will randomly space out seeds in the row. For lower cost seeds like wheat, that's typically good enough and it is a simpler machine. Another difference is that planters typically have wider row spacings. For corn, that's not a problem because the plants want more space. However, for cereal crops like wheat, ideally the spacing should be smaller. Typically spacing for wheat might be 8 to 10 inches but even narrower might give optimal yield. To get narrow spacing, you need more seed rows and those get expensive given the complexity of the planter system (high cost per seed row). In area she is farming, corn and soybeans are the major crops. There are a bunch of other field crops they might grow. Wheat is one but there are many others. Example planter manufacturer (lots of other companies make them): https://www.monosem.com/Products/Planter/Monoshox-NG-Plus-M https://www.monosem.com/Products/Planter/Monoshox-NG-Plus-M