TheFarmer wrote:I have disconnected the tramlining unit in the seed drill, and I simply plant the whole field, and then travel the field in the same wheelings during the Spring using the GPS system. The crop eventually dies off in those tracks and by mid April the tramlines are really clear.
I do it to make planting easier. I can just pitch in and out with the seeder where I like, without having to count the runs, and then also have the risk of the tramlines appearing in the wrong place etc.
If you are using the GPS system to apply liquid fertilizer and spray, is is not possible to do the same for drilling w/Tramlines? Is there no saving to be made? (As an aside, I remember as a child tagging along with my father pretty much everywhere I could and overhearing locals discussing with my father about his "drill blockages" with his then new MF30 - he was one of the first in the area at the time to use tramlines at the time ... full circle!!)
Out of interest, do you vary the fertilizer application across each field with soil sample data? ISTR that my father was looking at this with GPS data a few years before he retired, so around 2010-2012ish? Did that idea/tech take off?
Regards, SD..
Its generally best to make a hole in the sky.......not the ground...