Assessing Your Seed Meters
Think your planter can make it one more season without an inspection? You might be surprised just how much worn parts can impact your bottom line. Legacy Equipment can test your meters to ensure you maximize your planter's performance ... and your farm's potential. Correct population, uniform spacing, and emergence can impact yield potential.
Some of the most commonly replaced meter wear parts that can negatively impact your planter's ability to deliver the correct population or uniform spacing with a vacuum meter include knockout wheels, seed meter brushes, and vacuum meter seals. Correct population and spacing accuracy can ultimately impact your yield potential by up to 4 bu/acre. If any or all of these meter parts are worn or damaged, the table to the right illustrates the associated yield and revenue that may be at risk.
Primary Agronomic Factors Affected by Planting That Impact Yield
CORRECT POPULATION
2-4 bu/acre*
Performance Drivers
Population
Vacuum Level
Skips/Multiples
Double Elim. Settings
UNIFORM SPACING
2-4 bu/acre*
Performance Drivers
Singulation
Ride Quality
UNIFORM EMERGENCE
10-18 bu/acre*
Performance Drivers
Depth
Seed to Soil Contact
Residue Mgnt.
PLANTING WINDOW
4-10 bu/acre*
Performance Drivers
Planting Days