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It’s a well-known fact that crop emergence consistency
is essential for maximizing yields, but how can farmers
ensure that seeds make it through residue and into an
ideal seeding environment?
Leading provider of precision agriculture technologies,
Precision Planting, has developed a new frame-
mounted row cleaner called Reveal
™
that improves
row cleaning and emergence.
This new technology earned the name Reveal
™
as the
frame-mounted row cleaner reveals clean soil for seed
placement.
“Row-unit-mounted row cleaners can hurt row unit
ride and affect down force requirements,” explains
Bryce Baker, Precision Planting marketing manager.
“Reveal
™
is frame mounted, removing its impact on
the row unit.”
The company boasts three ways that Reveal
™
can
improve row cleaning and emergence.
The frame-mounted row cleaner eliminates the
negative effects that unit-mounted row cleaners have
on row unit ride and downforce, as described by Baker.
“The big difference with Reveal is that it’s mounted on
the actual planter bar, so it’s completely separate from
the row unit,” says Carl Dodge, a farmer in Iowa who
experimented with Precision Planting’s Reveal
™
this
growing season.
Reveal
™
also has tine depth adjustment on the unit
with independently adjustable pressure from the cab.
Baker points out that traditional row cleaners have
limited tine engagement, so if the residue is too thick,
they often cannot clear the full depth.
“Reveal has independent pressure adjustment and
cleaning tine depth adjustment, so you can set the
pressure you need to keep the internal gauge wheel
on the ground,” says Baker. “This helps eliminate
bounce of the row cleaner and allows you to then
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Precision Planting’s Reveal
TM
improves row unit ride
and downforce consistency
RYAN RIDLEY
FARMS.COM
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NEW
FRAME-MOUNTED ROW CLEANER
TECHNOLOGY HELPS MAXIMIZE YIELDS