Name: Great Plains Drill (4ft)
- Uses Material Description: Great Plains drill (4ft) wide. Used for small research plots. Purchased by the cover crop program at KBS.
2008-05-19 Planting Planted oats between the poplar tree columns (rows) at 3 bu/A. Todd Martin planted with JD 5225 and 4 ft wide Great Plains drill.
2021-07-27 Soil Preparation fertilize, soil finish, and plant cover crop trial.
2021-07-30 Planting Plant Christy Spray cover crop plots.
2021-10-20 Planting Fertilize fields at 30 lbs. N, 50 lbs. P, 10 lbs. S per acre with a blend of MAP, AMS, and urea. Plant winter barley trials in D2 and rye trial on north edge of E2.
2022-04-12 Soil Preparation South portion of E2 was fertilized at 50-0-40-10 lbs./acre N-P-K-S, then disked and planed with spring barley variety trial. South portion of B0 was fertilized at 70-0-60-15 lbs./acre N-P-K-S, then disked and planed with oat variety trial.
2022-10-03 Planting Plant winter malting barley trial south of the wheat trial. 46 varieties of barley and two of rye. plot 101 is in the SE corner of the trial.
2022-10-04 Planting Plant rye trial in the south half of A3-E.
2022-10-21 Soil Preparation Disk fields twice. plant wheat trial in C2 with great plains drill / cone seeder. Fill in rest on fields with whale wheat at 155 lbs./acre. equipment was clean before use.
2023-05-30 Soil Preparation Fertilize the west part of the field at 100 lbs. N and 36 lbs. S per acre; soil finish to incorporate. Plant hemp variety trial seed: Brook drove, and Josh loaded seed packets into the cone seeder. The area was then sprayed with Sonalan.
2023-09-14 Soil Preparation Soil finish field and plant canola variety trial. Half inch seeding depth. Blake drove the tractor and Josh loaded seed into the drill.
2023-09-26 Planting Plant winter barley variety trial. Dean drove the tractor and Josh loaded seed into the drill. Plot 101 in NW corner.
2024-09-04 Planting Plant canola variety trial. Fill in with Plurax CL. Seeding depth was 0.75". Chuck drove the tractor and Josh loaded packet into the cone seeder.
2024-10-04 Planting Plant Winter malting barley trial in B0 and rye variety trial in A1. Chuck drove the tractor, and Josh operated the cone seeder. In B0, sing the 450 drill, 100' of VT Beahm barley was planted to the north of the variety trial. The north 20' of B0, and to the west of the variety trial was filled in with a mix of old barley seed.
2025-08-26 Soil Preparation Soil finish plot area on 8/25. Plant NCCVT cover crop trial.
2025-10-01 Soil Preparation Chisel plow and soil finish field. D2 was then disked because it did not soil finish well because of high residue. Winder barley and rye trials were planted in D2 and E2.
2026-04-22 Soil Preparation Soil finish west end of the field and plant spring barley variety trial. Plot 1.1 is in the northwest corner. Chuck drove the planter and Josh loaded seed packets.