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Hi, this is Kelly GA from Extreme Ag. This is an exciting video. It's the first planning video of Spring 2024.
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I'm in the tractor today with my brother-in-Law, Cory Rice. We started plant beans yesterday.
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It's a brand new planter, brand new to us. It's a 1795 John Deere. It's a 40 foot planter on 20 inch rows.
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We went from 15 inch rows to twenties for the first time in my life for the simple reason of residue management.
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15 inch rows, of course, have two toolbars. So you got a front set of units and a back set of units. And to get those units to all pass
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through our no-till residue was a challenge. We tried not having row cleaners. We tried different designs or styles of row cleaners
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and nothing ever seemed to really satisfy us. And as the corn yields go up and the plant health goes up,
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it became a bigger and bigger problem. That planter was starting to get some age on it, some wear. So when we traded, we traded into a 20 inch planter.
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We worked with Van Wall out of Dennison, Iowa, Ryan Morgan, Ryan Sonen.
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Great group of guys up there. Were really happy. I came out here to ask Cory what he thinks about the planter.
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It's an exact emerge planter with exact rate. So, Cory, what do you think? I think this planter is awesome. This is easy to use.
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Everything came on. The planter implemented straight from John Deere. Way easier than anything we've had before.
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Cory and I have been working together since 2015 or 16. We added in furrow to the planters in 2017, 2018. But it's always been an outside system
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that we've put on the planter, be it the two by two or the in furrow on this planter. Of course, we'll have in furrow on our soybean planter,
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but it's, it's exact right. It's from John Deere factory implemented. Cory's saying it's awesome.
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It's awesome. Easy to use. We, uh, took the planter out to the field yesterday. Cory and Richie had a couple adjustments,
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but, uh, it's going full steam ahead and everybody here at Garrett Atlanta cattle's pretty happy.