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Thursday, August 29, 2013

New Machinery that Caught My Eye

Some machinery that caught my eye at the Farm Progress Show is shown below.  The Landoll vertical tillage tool will actually do vertical tillage.  Some who want to mix in more soil might go for a rolling basket on the back, but my regular readers know that I am not a big fan of rolling baskets.
Vertical Tillage Tool
 Marion Calmer continues to lead the way in harvest of narrow row corn.  His heads work on Red or Green equipment.  calmer believes that we need narrower rows and higher populations to break the 300 bushel mark as a matter of routine. 
Calmer 30 row 12 inch spacing corn heard
 The disk below may not be entirely a new idea, but it could prove useful in managing high residue in certain situations. 
residue disk

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