Looking for a No-Till Drill....need some opinions to guide me.

[Jonathan Dansel]

We are in the market for a NT drill.  20 or 30ft to drill wheat most of the time...maybe some milo.  It will not see alot of acres every year but maybe up to 4 or 500.  I'm leaning toward a JD with a single opening disc....will be no-tilling into corn and milo stalks on 30's, and stripper header wheat stubble.  Thanks for any info or experience you may have with your NT drills.

[Keith Livak]

I do not know much about jd nt drills but you should into a great plains NT drill. They are built extremely well and hold up quite well. Another really good thing about them is that you can set the amount of down pressure that you want so that the seed actually gets in the ground. I have a conventional great plains drill and have no complaints with it, just got through with the third season with it. The highest setting of down pressure will actually lift the tires of the drill off of the ground. I have actually no tilled with it using the highest setting and the seed gets put in at the right depth and the crop grows great. Hopefully that helps you out. If you have any other questions don't bother to ask. Keith

[Jonathan Dansel]

which model?

[Morgan McNeal]

Again im going to suggest a Great Plains No-till, we have a fifteen foot model that has over 6000 acres on it and i love it. Very easy to adjust in field. Also they have came out with a singulator that gives you more accurate seeding rates.

[josh]

I would say try a case 5400 no till drill we have a 15 foot model with disc blades infront of it it dose a real good job for us it pulls easy and you can drill through the highest crop residue without plugging up on you

[Jonathan Dansel]

what model?

[Jonathan Dansel]

Yeah we have a 30' Great Plains drill and really like it...just looking at some of the deere's i thought maybe residue would flow better where there are two sets of drills, a front set and a back set on 10" centers about 2.5' apart or so...i can't tell on the GP how it is set up...trying to tell from some pictures on the net. Thanks for the input, keep it coming!

[Morgan McNeal]

Yeah, the only thing that we have run into with our greatplains is residue catching on the fertilizer tubes that follow behind the coulters, we have a 1500 model with a caddy cart, small timin, so that can be frustrating some times, My dad and i were just talking about drills. Its interesting how great plains is really the only one that has a coulter infront of their disk on their drills, i wonder whats behind that.

[Jonathan Dansel]

Yeah, an air seeder would be damn nice to have, but quite a few of our dryland acres are corners of our irrigated quarters..i just think it would suck trying to make that all work where your circles meet up with the road...20' would fit in there pretty nice.

[Morgan McNeal]

Yeah i worked out in the colby area for two years, i ran a 40' and a 30' Air seeder that my boss owned and could get tight drilling wheat in the corners, Almost had to have at least the outside edge already picked, and you cant back an air seeder with a cart into a corner and drill it that way.

[Jonathan Dansel]

yep, thats what i figured..thanks.

[Nick]

It's always nicer to mess with a 30 or 40' drill on a few 7 acre corners than to drill lots of acres with a 20' drill.....my opinion....:)

[Nick]

If you run the corners circle track it's as easy as can be.....we do 7 acres corners with our 42' JD and it works great...and we have front wheel assist tractors.