Small Planters Have Big Planter Features

Small Planters Have Big Planter Features PLANTERS David Behrends came up with the idea of building small 3-pt planters while working for a company that built narrow-row bean planters “We had spare parts around and wondered if there might be a market for a 2 or 4-row mounted planter so we put a few together ” Behrends says In the past few years he’s sold more than a hundred of them across the country Behrends builds the 2 3 and 4-row units with Cat I II and III 3-pt hitch brackets welded to a standard 7 by 7-in steel beam Deere or Kinze row units bolt onto the beam and operate using a Deere 7000 planter wheel drive Plant population can be set at whatever level the operator wants Behrends says he originally thought row crop farmers would buy the units for re-planting but lately farmers with small acreages are buying them while vegetable farmers who raise sweet corn hunters who have food plots and companies that have small research plots for seed and chemicals are also buyers The 2-row unit is priced at $2 500 and the 4-row unit starts at $3 600 with optional hydraulic markers available Says Behrends “There are other planters like these on the market but I try to take the time and really build them right so they work well and look nice when they’re done I want my customers to be happy with them for many years to come ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup David Behrends 3386 N U S Highway 45 52 Chebanse Ill 60922 ph 815 735-5529; davidbehrends@hotmail com

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