Enhancing Planter Efficiency with John Deere Upgrades
23 Jul 243m 7s

Johnny Verell from XtremeAg discusses improvements made to his planting operations, focusing on transitioning from a John Deere 1795 planter to a more advanced 1775 NT model.

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00:00 Johnny Rell with extreme Ag. I'm out here today. We're doing a little work on our planters, getting ready to get back, going 00:04 behind double crop soybeans or double crop corn. And one of the big things we did this year for our farming operation, 00:10 we went from a 1795 John Deere planter that we had stripped down and made a hundred percent precision 00:15 because we were wanting to get everything as active as we could. We wanted to have two 00:19 or three rate controllers on every road doing two by two, doing infer, all that type of thing. 00:24 We stripped ours down and we did all that in-house. We built them out. And you know, this past year we decided to swap over and we went 00:29 to a 1775 nt, uh, John Deere planter. We went from three planters that were 40 foot to two 60 foot planters. 00:35 And one of the big reasons we did it is 'cause of our local support, right? Because a lot of times you run into issues 00:40 and you need, you need that guy to be able to come out right then and help you. And we just didn't really have a good dealer close by 00:45 with the other company we were using. So the other reasons we liked this deal was because when we tried to run all the hoses 00:51 and all the lines for all the fertilizes and two by two and infer that we were running, you run into pinch points everywhere. 00:56 You can see how there's, every time you fold up, something was getting pinched, a wire was getting pulled. Well Deere came out 01:01 and they have now from the factory you can get infer and two by two along with high speed hydraulic down force and everything. 01:08 You know, that was a big deal for us because everything is put together so nice and clean. They know where to put the wires, they know how 01:13 to make things last and run a long time without getting pink ORs, without getting pulled. 01:17 You know, right here is the little control valve that rubs our two by two all the way down to the back of the planter here. 01:22 That valve does individual row cutoff for us. Great control for us. You know, we put a aftermarket closing wheel on here 01:27 and we just did dribble tubes. We've done different types of knives, different types of blades, putting two by two in 01:32 and just never, were really happy with it. Well, we just came out with this simple idea that we got, we saw at one of the farm shows and we bought it 01:38 and put it on our closing wheel system. Up here is Deere's infer rate controller for the rows. It's two rows per control body 01:46 and it just allows it to come out and drills it right, right down on top of the seat. So for us it was a big thing about, you know, 01:52 having everything done from the factory. We didn't have to retrofit anything, didn't have to worry about if it was gonna work or not. 01:56 He came with an infer, A tank onboard tank here is 600 gallons. It has recirculation, everything like that if you need it, 02:02 it has a rest tank built in. So if we need to blow the lines out with fresh water on the weekends 02:07 or something like that, we can do that. So just being able to have a turnkey thing with everything we need on it, it's a big deal for us. 02:12 And so we're happy. We've had no issues for the planters as far as the infer and two by two this year. 02:17 You know, if you keep a pretty clean product, it's pretty much maintenance free. But another thing we did on one of the planters, 02:22 we put a onboard air system on it so we could deflate the tires. We did it on one planter. 02:26 We got some side by side comparisons. We're trying to see if one planter running and you able to let the air pressure down from say, 02:32 50 60 PSI, down to about 25 PSI. Does that help with the compaction? That's right underneath these planters. 02:38 'cause they're so heavy in the center with the, you know, they got a little extra size extra large 02:42 tanks this year to hold seed. You got 600 gallons of infer. You know, stuff like that adds up a lot. 02:46 So we bought the onboard air system on one planter to see if deflating the tires would really help us out on that. 02:51 But other than that, everything's pretty same. Pretty similar row cleaners. Everything came from the factory. 02:56 So we bought the planters, we added our CLO two stage closing system that we like running and pretty much we're ready 03:01 to go the field in.

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