Play in your seed boots?
by Ethan Begle, Technical Service If you have more than ½” of up and down movement in your seed boot when measured against the blade,… Read More »Play in your seed boots?
by Ethan Begle, Technical Service If you have more than ½” of up and down movement in your seed boot when measured against the blade,… Read More »Play in your seed boots?
by Ethan Begle With the release of the P500 air seeders back in 2013, it appeared, looking at the opener design, that a lot of… Read More »Case IH Precision Disc Opener Improvements
By Ethan Begle, Sales & Technical Service Most of the popular seed openers used today are the same concept of using a disc to create a… Read More »Planter Opener Design and Why it Matters
Exapta is celebrating 25 years in the business of improving planters and drills for no-till seeding. We are very thankful for all of you who… Read More »25 Years of Exapta and the Product Innovations that Got us Here
Since gauge wheels determine the depth at which the openers penetrate the ground (assuming down pressure is adequate), it is of upmost importance that they… Read More »Gauge Wheel Issues and Answers
If there is one part that doesn’t get replaced as often as it should, it’s the openers. When you decide to get “another season” out… Read More »Cuts like a knife? Opener Blades
On JD and CIH P-500/NH P-2080/85 single disc drills (with 18″ blades), blades should be replaced at 17 3/8″ diameter or sooner. At Exapta, we… Read More »Drill Blades: When to Replace and Why?
Bigger isn’t always better. At least not for opener blades cutting mulch (and soil) in no-till.Too many OEMs want to use 20 – 24” opener… Read More »Blade Size for No-till Openers
I sometimes am called upon to do the impossible: Make a poorly designed planter or drill work well in no-till. And I then have to convey
An article this past summer (2017) in Corn & Soybean Digest raises this question, and sets forth the reasons that its inventor, John Baker, claims it is. To a large extent, it regurgitates a propaganda barrage from Baker’s PowerPoint presentation without any skepticism or counterpoint. Many of Baker’s claims are preposterous, and his views warped from reality.