No Till Drill reccomendations

[JMJ Farms]

Anyone think there's a no till that's better than Great Plains? This is the only brand I've ever used. Unfortunately it didn't belong to me so I need one.

 

[kenny thomas]

Not sure its better but we have a haybuster that works great.

 

[RiverHills]

What you trying to drill?

 

[kenny thomas]

What you trying to drill?

I guess I just thought he meant grass but your correct he didn't say what. Heck they even no-till tobacco now.

 

[dun]

Not sure its better but we have a haybuster that works great.

We have Hyabuster 107. It has a small seed box and also the modifications for drilling fluffy WSG seed. Like any other equipment, it needs to be thoroughly cleaned after use. I've drilled WSG, fescue, timothy, OG, clover, lespedeza, turnips, sunflowers, soybeans, brome, milo, millet and alfalfa with it. Also wildflowers and granulated fertilizer.
No complaints from me

 

[JW IN VA]

Any recommendations for smaller renovators?I'd like to re-seed on my own timetable but don't have alot of extra cash.

 

[dun]

Any recommendations for smaller renovators?I'd like to re-seed on my own timetable but don't have alot of extra cash.

The time table and cash were why I got a heavily used 107. Probably tripled it's value by putting 100 bucks worth of parts on it and lot of sweat equity getting it to be running right.

 

[JMJ Farms]

What you trying to drill?

Predominantly small grains for winter grazing. Mainly rye, wheat, oats, and ryegrass. I do want the small seed box for grass and clover as I may try some clover in my pastures and hayfields and you never know when you might need to plant some grass.

 

[dogdoc]

I have a land pride (Great Plains ) 606nt pull type notill drill. It does about 6 feet at a time and works great. I think it is about 8 foot wide to end of the wheels so I have no problem pulling down the highway and getting through my farm gates. I use it for winter grazing, food plots, and most recently drilled some browntop millet. If you were doing real large acreage you might want a bigger one but portability goes way down with large ones. I paid about 15000.00 for mine about 2 years ago. I would buy again.

 

[JMJ Farms]

Anyone have any experience with a Tye, wildflower seeder, no till drill? 3 point hitch with all three seed boxes.

 

[Lucky_P]

Local Southern States has Tye drills for rent. Have had to use them 2-3 times in the past when the Great Plains drills the NRCS rents out were booked solid.
Have never been satisfied - and actually, been pretty disappointed - with the results I've gotten using the Tye drills. To the point that if the Great Plains are not available... I'm not wasting time and seed.

 

[JMJ Farms]

Local Southern States has Tye drills for rent. Have had to use them 2-3 times in the past when the Great Plains drills the NRCS rents out were booked solid.
Have never been satisfied - and actually, been pretty disappointed - with the results I've gotten using the Tye drills. To the point that if the Great Plains are not available... I'm not wasting time and seed.

Thank you Lucky_P

 

[True Grit Farms]

Local Southern States has Tye drills for rent. Have had to use them 2-3 times in the past when the Great Plains drills the NRCS rents out were booked solid.
Have never been satisfied - and actually, been pretty disappointed - with the results I've gotten using the Tye drills. To the point that if the Great Plains are not available... I'm not wasting time and seed.

Thank you Lucky_P

I hate to pimp brands but our Haybuster looked like it was the simplest, strongest and easiest to use to me.
NRCS is cost sharing up to 75% I hear on new no till drills.

 

[cfpinz]

Local Southern States has Tye drills for rent. Have had to use them 2-3 times in the past when the Great Plains drills the NRCS rents out were booked solid.
Have never been satisfied - and actually, been pretty disappointed - with the results I've gotten using the Tye drills. To the point that if the Great Plains are not available... I'm not wasting time and seed.

Same here, I used a rental Tye one time and was disappointed.

I bought an old Haybuster 107, it works as good as anything I've used.

 

[dun]

Local Southern States has Tye drills for rent. Have had to use them 2-3 times in the past when the Great Plains drills the NRCS rents out were booked solid.
Have never been satisfied - and actually, been pretty disappointed - with the results I've gotten using the Tye drills. To the point that if the Great Plains are not available... I'm not wasting time and seed.

Same here, I used a rental Tye one time and was disappointed.

I bought an old Haybuster 107, it works as good as anything I've used.

Yup, I did the same thing. Had to do some fixing to get it right but it's worked well for everything I've tried to plant except timothy

 

[Stocker Steve]

NRCS is cost sharing up to 75% I hear on new no till drills.

How/why to they cost share on equipment?

 

[True Grit Farms]

NRCS is cost sharing up to 75% I hear on new no till drills.

How/why to they cost share on equipment?

We don't accept welfare or subsidies yet. But I was told by two reliable sources that the NRCS is cost sharing up to 75% on no till drills and giving out $50k micro loans at low interest rates with no production history needed. If you interested just contact your county agent. I'm not very smart, we pay more in taxes every year so our government can give it to folks that don't really need it. And to think, all I want is to be left alone, and the government doesn't like that.

 

[cfpinz]

I've planted timothy in mixtures, but never straight. What problems did you have?

 

[dun]

I've planted timothy in mixtures, but never straight. What problems did you have?

P poor stand. I think I just couldn;t get the seed shallow enough. But timothy doesn;t grow all that well around here anyway

 

[Stocker Steve]

I think I just couldn;t get the seed shallow enough. But timothy doesn;t grow all that well around here anyway

Its a weed here. Many mixes have 10% timothy by weight to cheapen them up.
Not real competitive, so it does well with BFT in a one or two cut meadow system.