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Fishincoach

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John Deer 850
Will a John Deere Flex 71 do a good job planting Sorghum and Millet? How about a Cole or Covington?
 
   / Planters #2  
New Covington with approx 30 different plates available would probably be the choice for me. Ken Sweet
 
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Will a John Deere Flex 71 do a good job planting Sorghum and Millet? How about a Cole or Covington?

You would likely get more responses on the attachment forum.

I have a 71 planter but have only planted corn, beans and pumpkins/squash with it. There is a whole page in the 71 manual on setting up the 71 for sorghum. My manual makes no mention of millet.
 
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They'll do the sorghum OK. Millet is such a small seed, it needs to be drilled. You can broadcast it, and disc it in lightly. Mark
 
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you could contact these guys and see if there is a plate or one that can be made for Millet. Don't know anything about them but found them before while looking for a source for new plates.

Lincoln Ag Products
 
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Thanks guys, I ended up finding two of the older double hopper Cole planters and a Pittsburgh cultivator. One is in really good shape with the other a little stiff. As of now I can only work one row at a time because the max wheel base on my tractor is only 52". The planters came with lots of corn plates, and some peanut plates. I worked with Holder and Sons in NC and bought all the gears to change spacing plus a Sorghum plate and a Cantaloupe plate. Online I also found the charts for seed plates and seed spacing with the different gears. I am going to try the Sorghum plate on the smaller Millet seed and see if it does good enough, if not I will broadcast and disc in.
I am not in a hurry but looking for a slightly larger tractor that can work two rows, I will most likely not plant but 5 to 8 acres this year so I should be ok with my one row set up.
 
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I have a old cole 700 line double hopper planter need to know where I can get plate charts .:tractor:
 
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I found the charts online somewhere doing a search. I will try to attach copies here.
 

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Fishincoach the copies you sent are just like what I can make out inside the hopper lid thank's...
 

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