How do you like that hay buster drill? About to rent one as a second machine in a several hundred acre natives planting. A lot of the ground is rough and steep. How does it handle diverse terrain? Our land pride has a much lower center of gravity.
Which Land Pride do you have? We have the Great Plains 3P606NT. It's been great
Not great on rough ground. These 2 pics were the last plot planted. Almost none level, new plot planted for the first time last fall. I'm a bit worried the drill didn't get the beans deep enough, prob 80% are just 1/8in deep as the ground is pretty hard. Should have enough of the other stuff besides beans to get a good stand, and I basically doubled the drill rate on that 4 acres.
We have the 1006NT in both colors. The great plains has been upgraded with the native grass box and the small seed box. If we get all of the USDA / NRCS work we are in for I will wear out both by december. Thats why we are renting the haybuster its all rocky cherty clay and will eat a drill up. The first 138 acres is all forbs, then 300 acres of natives and warm season grasses then theres 900 acres of rough as hell to be determined as to what gets planted or how
That's a lot of planting! We have the small seed box as well. But us planting 25 acres once in spring and once in fall, should last us forever (we hope).
I've seen this done on YT by some folks. Would be interesting. And with some buckwheat mixed in, wouldn't hurt.
I'm taking this is low ground? That's something I'll never have to worry about being on ridge tops
Riverside and very flat
We didn't get anywhere near that much in May (5.5"), but we have had 33" inches already this year. Considering our annual average is around 52" that's a good start. Although this exact thing happened last year. Great rains through May and then it turned off until late October.
