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Manitoba | Hello Ron, now since you are almost done and we are just over half done, and you are using a Morris Drill and we are using a John Deere--doesn't that tell you something? Maybe we should trade drills, so that we could be done sooner!!! Yes, the tank is new this year, a triple tank 430 with VR with the idea being that we would VR the dry phosphate, but with the price of phosphate being considerable less than last year--it hardly pays to build the maps and VR that. However, we did install a GreenStar 2 to VR the liquid N and are doing half a dozen fields with VR this year-and hoping to expand that next year. We are currently using a Green Drop system but it has limitations for VR'ing depending on nozzle sizes. We can vary from 21 US gal/acre to 36 USgal/acre with the 30 nozzles, so we do still benefit from VR'ing. If we were to re-install, we would likely go with the Pattison system, EXCEPT, they are highly suscepitble to blockages with their small orfices. Need lots of and good screens.
The 1830 should be a better drill than the 1820--the 1820 was kind of a copy of the Flexi-Coil, but a half hearted attempt at that, whereas the 1830 is very similar to the Flexi because all the wings and the main frame flex. We have had some issues with the 1820 early on, it recieved a warranty rebuild of 50 hours of welding and extra gussets and supports put on last year and a 5 year frame warranty--so here's hoping that it will hang together. I keep telling the JD guys that we are going to have to buy a JD tractor, so that we quite pulling the drill apart!!
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Seeding progress in SW MB.
