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User: Joe Simmons

Created on: 2007-06-06

Observation Date 2005-01-01

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In the 2005 LTER Agronomic Log please refer to the following list and description of equipment that will be used on the LTER agronomic plots during the 2005 growing season. In the agronomic log we will not describe in detail each peace of equipment used to perform specific practice i.e. when a plot has been chisel plowed we will just state that the plot has been chisel plowed and you must refer to the following list for the specific details and description of the specific equipment used to preformed a specific pratice. John Deere 714 Mulch Tiller (chisel plow) 7 shank (8' 9'' working width) with coulter gangs on the front (straight disk blades) with 4” (102 mm)concave twisted shovels. John Deere 726 Mulch Finisher (soil finisher)working width: 15' 9'' (4.8 m)C shanks with 12” sweep Disk gangs on the front. Spike-tooth harrow and rolling baskets. John Deere 1730 Maxemerge Plus Planter (JD 1730 Planter). We use the JD 1730 planter to plant corn or soybeans. The JD 1730 planter is capable of planting six 30” rows or eleven 15” rows. The JD 1730 is equipped with 7” fluted coulters, rubber closing wheels, finger seed pickup. The wheel drive system was replaced with an Accu-Rate programmable rate controller manufactured by Rawson Control Systems, Inc. Oelwein, Iowa.

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