The 500DS joins Case IH’s Precision Disk lineup, which includes the 500 and 500T models.
Farmers looking for the benefits of high-efficiency seeding combined with those of a Precision Disk 500 would benefit from the 500DS.
One of the drill’s key features is the Precision Placement Knife.
It places fertilizer about one inch lower and one inch to the side of the seed, making the nutrients more accessible to the crop and preventing burn.
“It’s a fixed placement because, wherever the row unit goes, the farmer is guaranteed that the seed is going to be two inches away” from the fertilizer, Nowosad said. “When we put the fertilizer below the seed into the root zone, we see greater fertilizer efficiency because we’re placing nutrients where the roots have access to them.”
The drill is designed to allow farmers to adjust planting depths with ease.
Its T-handle no-tool feature is indexed to a quarter of an inch per notch and the spacing between each notch is progressively larger from the lowest to highest settings.
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