Wheat/Cover Crop Plates For Deere, Kinze Planters

Wheat/Cover Crop Plates For Deere Kinze Planters PLANTERS You can plant wheat and cover crops with a Deere or Kinze air planter using seed plates from Seed Right The specially designed plates offer more accuracy with less seed improving stand while saving money “Larry Hak developed the original wheat backing plate for the Kinze brush meter planter ” explains Dallis Gibson “People wanted similar plates for Deere planters They give growers more control over spacing and depth “ Hak with Gibson and Gibson’s brother Trevor came up with replacement plates for the Deere vacuum planter and the Kinze EdgeVac planter What they developed are 2 disks one with a large channel and the other with a small channel The only difference between plates for the 2 brands is the center mounts “The larger channel plate can handle wheat and larger seeds as well as mixes with seeds down to radish size ” explains Gibson “The smaller channel plate is for small seed like crimson clover and radish seed by itself or mixes of small seeds in less poundage ” The replacement vacuum plates for Deere and Kinze planters simply replace the OEM corn or soybean plates “The channels pull in more seed for a good ratio of mixes ” says Gibson “With wheat you get a higher population in the 15-in rows than you would in an 8-in row drill A lot of our customers say they get higher yields as a result and fewer problems with disease perhaps because of more air movement ” He notes that the original backing plate developed for seeding wheat with a Kinze planter also works great for cover crops of all sizes It is an aluminum plate with a piece of foam that fits over the existing plate on a Kinze brush meter planter The foam seals off the seed disc with its individual seed grooves “Instead of individual seeds we get 20 to 30 seeds per cell ” says Gibson “It works great even with mixes of 15 or more different cover crops ” He advises that planting rates may need to be adjusted on the vacuum planters when planting either cover crops or wheat “We can help figure out rates ” says Gibson “It’s a good idea to make a strip and see how it looks and adjust accordingly ” Seed Right is selling the Deere and Kinze replacement plates for $42 each The Kinze wheat cover plate sells for $31 “We sell the plates direct from our website but we also have several Deere and Kinze dealers that carry the plates ” says Gibson “We are also working on a licensing agreement with a national distributor ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Seed Right 23453 Werner Rd Convoy Ohio 45832 ph 419 749-4021; dgibson1825@gmail com; www seed-right com

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