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User: Joe Simmons
Created on: 2015-11-18
Observation Date 2015-11-17
Comment:
No-till planted wheeler rye in the LTER Biodiversity study, treatments B3 (111, 203, 306, 403), B5 (114, 217, 312, 405),and B16 (101, 210, 308, 416).
Seed was a rye variety that is a wheeler rye from Moore Seed Farm out of Elsie MI.
Target population was 2.5 bu/a or 140 lbs/A.
224 lbs was loaded into the drill total and there was 78 lbs that was taken out of the drill after planting 1.0 acres.
The final seeding rate works out to be 146 lbs/A (2.6 bu/A).
Planting depth was 1.0 inch deep.
Drill population setting was set at 39.
Areas:
B16 B3 B5
Observation Type:
Planting
Activities:
Worker: Joe Simmons
Equipment: John Deere 1590 15' no-till drill
• Material: rye
@ 146.0
pound per acre
Equipment: John Deere 7420b Tractor (14.9 R 46 back tire size)
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