We have a 16 row corn planter that we use for all of our irrigated fields, but it wouldn't have been enough to get all of our of our dry land corn planted in time so we decided to get two tractors rolling. We didn't have a second 16 row planter, but we did have 2, 8 row planters. So my father-in-law and I did some "farm engineering" and now we have a second 16 row planter. Having two different planters pulled by one tractor can have its difficulties, but we were able to plant a lot of acres with that setup and our fields are looking great.
We bought a tractor last December and set it up with a new guidance system. We hadn't really had a chance to try it out until we started to plant corn, and it was a lot of fun to finally get to use it. Something that I thought was interesting about this system is that it uses Russian positioning satellites to improve the accuracy of the system.
Can you imagine the response I would get if I traveled back in time to the cold war era and told a farmer that I had a tractor that drove itself and that it used Russian satellites to help steer... ?
-Planter Man Ryan
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