Looking 4 cotton plates 7100 JD

[Wingman]

Need 6.

[dukmisr2005]

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..

[SWAG]

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

[Wingman]

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!

[ducman77]

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

[j.r.]

I think I have some I will look monday

[Wingman]

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.

[dukmisr2005]

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

[Wingman]

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.

[Wingman]

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.

[dukmisr2005]

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.