On 38"....

And with wide rows could there possibly be a return to cultivating for more weed control versus the uber reliance on spraying? I don't get why seed is so darned expensive and certain companies have sued farmers over having harvested grain cleaned for seeding-as they claim it's not the farmer's but theirs. Perhaps by design we see fewer and fewer family farms which in turn get swallowed up by ever increasing corporate operations who are the only ones able to keep up with rising costs and miserable crop prices. Seems every year the profit margin shrinks and breaking even is a good year. Add to this all of the detrimental environmental measures implemented without any thought to the impact on farmers and it's a tough living. Ironic in that our agriculture is the most advanced in the world and it overproduces-keeping those prices low. Farmers need another cash crop so they aren't so reliant on just beans and corn.

I think wide row soybean planting is on the rise in the corn belt has to do with fewer farmers farming more acres with a return to more tillage and a tightening of the rotation to corn and soybeans or corn, corn, corn and soybeans. There has to be simplicity in operation and management which drives growers to one type of equipment so be it one, two or three planters the parts, operator training etc is the same - KISS

@tomservo5347

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Remember when no till was the wave of the future and these over educated scientists claimed the freeze/thaw process was enough to keep the soil from getting packed?