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i dont have any regular plates.. i can get the Precision Planting eSet drill cotton plates for vac planters.. we got some one time for a ih900 but cant remember where... try shoup mfg maybe..

You can get the plastic ones from most JD places. They are only $3-$5 each. Website somewhere you can order from as well. I have a lot of sets of the plastic ones, but we have an old 4 row planter. Can borrow these and just by two if you like

SWAG wrote:You can get the plastic ones from most JD places. They are only $3-$5 each. Website somewhere you can order from as well. I have a lot of sets of the plastic ones, but we have an old 4 row planter. Can borrow these and just by two if you like

Try $34 each through John Deere!

I found a website in Nebraska selling the plates I needed for $13.25 each. Was wanting the cotton plates to plant small sized sunflowers, but this place had sunflower plates. Reckon they plant a good bit of flowers out there in the Plains and know what they're talking about.

Thanks for all of the input, fellas!

You can not even buy a piece of gum at John Deere for under 10 bucks...

I think I have some I will look monday

Went from 2.5 seed per foot with 24-cell corn plates plugged with silicone to make them 12-cell, to 1.4 seed with the 16-cell sunflower plates.

What do "they" say is recommended seed spacing? I'm planting Triumph FTB hybrids, treated with gold dust, so trying to perfect my seed spacing.

For 38" rows measure off 13ft9in for 1/1000th of acre. I would say 1 seed every 8 inches was good.

The corn plates were planting about 7-8 pounds per acre but it looked more like hill drop than evenly spaced. I was trying to get a little lower, in the 5 lb range and more evenly spaced. I think this will work well.

dukmisr2005 wrote:For 38" rows measure off 13ft9in for 1/1000th of acre. I would say 1 seed every 8 inches was good.

I'm no real farmer, but I measured the gauge wheel, which was 90" around. That equals 7.5 feet. I rolled it around several times and took an average of all of the seed that came out. I averaged 10.6666666 seed per revolution. That should be roughly 1 seed every 8.4 inches, versus I seed every 4.75 inches with the old plates.

How wide is a dove, anyway?

Trying to figure out how many doves can walk shoulder to shoulder between the stalks.

I wish half my farmers took that much time and effort on corn. If so we'd be at 400 bushel corn an acre easy on our good cotton dirt.