STP ‘saw-tooth’ opener blades
by Matt Hagny The Exapta crew has gotten quite a few questions from our customers as to Precision Tillage Tech’s STP/Sabre-Tooth opener blades, so we… Read More »STP ‘saw-tooth’ opener blades
by Matt Hagny The Exapta crew has gotten quite a few questions from our customers as to Precision Tillage Tech’s STP/Sabre-Tooth opener blades, so we… Read More »STP ‘saw-tooth’ opener blades
Many of you in North America are fighting mud, and might find it difficult to contemplate needing more frame weight at the moment. But we’ve been… Read More »Introducing Exapta’s weight brackets for JD 3-section air drills
If you have a JD drill where the rear transport wheel frame is held together as shown in the photo, you probably are constantly replacing… Read More »Frame bolt breakage on JD air drills
It seems to be the latest trend amongst the Regenerative Ag folks to stop using seed-applied fungicides for fear of what they might be doing… Read More »Do seed-applied fungicides harm mycorrhizae?
We tend to be rather complacent about soybean stand uniformity—non-uniform distance between plants as well as non-uniform timing of emergence. As an agronomist, I stopped worrying… Read More »Soybean Stand Uniformity: Does It Matter?
If you have new blades on a Deere planter with the depth mechanism set as shown in this photo, the furrow being cut should be… Read More »Planter Downforce, Depth Settings, and Levelness
If you notice a lot of wear on the depth-adjustment mechanism (the plate with the notches in it, as well as the knob), it’s probably… Read More »‘Cover-Plate’ Wear on JD 60/90/Pro-series Drills
by Matt Hagny, freelance agronomic consultant since ’94[Originally written Nov 2017; updated March 2019] Palmer amaranth, waterhemp, marestail, kochia in many regions are now resistant… Read More »Resistant Weeds: Tillage vs Technology (including WEEDit)
We’ve been waiting decades for Deere to come out with improvements to their 90-series no-till drill openers. Now that it’s finally happened, it’s mostly a yawn—almost… Read More »Deere ‘Pro’-series NT drills: Worth it?
For those who don’t know my history, I’ve been an agronomist (independent crop consultant) for nearly a quarter-century now, working almost exclusively with no-till systems… Read More »Fertilizers in the Seed Row (“Pop-up”)