Mr. Notill

[mossyhorns]

Finally getting caught up on my farming. Bought a 2-row no-till corn planter this spring to plant food plots. Let me tell you boys, it's the berries! No more plowing, disking, getting stuck, and all that fun stuff. Just roll in with the tractor, planter, and Roundup Ready corn, then follow with ATV sprayer and a generous helping of Roundup and a little Prowl thrown in for good measure.

Planted 5.5 acres of no-till sunflowers, too. Fellow I lease from has a Great Plains no-till drill that I use for sunflowers, milo, clover, wheat -- virtually anything except corn.

Sure beats the heck out of wrestling with plows, planters, and weeds in some dank, mosquito infested duck hole.:)

[skin_dog1]

what does something like that cost? Sounds like it makes it pretty easy. I looked on the web recently at some of the small great plains drills, but they didn't have prices either. I'm not really in the market, just curious. Maybe one day I'll be in the market.

[WBBP]

Mossy: I agree. No-till is the way to go. It is perfect for food plots where most people don't have tillage equipment that is heavy enough to actually penetrate the ground and and actually a good seed bed. Most of the no-till planters will plant corn, soybeans, milo, and sunflowers if you have the older models which have plates or the newer models which have special cups.

Skin: I bought a 4 row (narrow) John Deere no-till corn planter 6 years ago for $2,500. No need for bushhogging, it will plant through fescue and weeds that are 4' tall. Just spray and plant or plant and spray and then fertilize in the row if the planter is equipped with fertilizer boxes or just broadcast on top of the ground. I think you can find them cheaper now, but be careful, there are alot of parts that could be worn out. I actually bought mine dirrectly from a farmer that was upgrading to a eight row planter. I happened to be at the JD dealer and observed him looking at new corn planters. I asked him if we was upgrading and he said he was. I followed him back home to Monroe County and bought his old planter. He had been using it to plant 250 acres every year for 6 years, so it just had planted a total of 1500 acres over it's life. It was in excellent condition. I think I planted around 70 acres this year with it just for food plots.

[mossyhorns]

Great Plains drills are higher than an elephant's hiney. The one I'm using is probably a $12k rig now. I found a fellow near Salem, IL who makes 2 row notills out of old AC and IH units. He sells them for around $300.

A lot of seed stores (southern states, etc) and some county FSA offices have no till grain drills for rent. They eat up horsepower, though. I'm using a 100 hp tractor to pull a 10 footer.

[WBBP]

Mossy: You must not be using a John Deere if all that 100 HP will pull is a 10' drill! :D

[mossyhorns]

Naw, have to use a Farmall -- and it doesn't like it because the drill is green!:D:D

[Rob7]

Mossy: Interested in the gentlemans contact info who makes the 2 row notills out of the old equipment if available.
Thanks, RobH

[mossyhorns]

I'll try to find it and send it to you Rob.

[lab]

You should be able to find a used one at a local farm equipment dealer. For what it is worth, my uncle and I made one that works as well as anything that you can buy. I found this one by doing a search. It actually looks very similar to the one that we made.

http://www.sweettractors.com/Used%20Equipment/images/733acnotill.jpg

[lab]

Check out these guys. http://www.sweettractors.com I actually found the above picture on their website. They have several small pieces of equipment that would be perfect for preparing food plots. Hope it helps.

[Multidigits]

I found this one on Ebay and bought it, now I got to drive to Bumfuk, Egypt to get it. :D

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7519906651&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOAB:US:6