Crops:The Lynch File: Rising seed costs and better seeding equipment put more emphasis on seed drop

Producers who can capitalize on better seed placement can make $5 to $10 an acre more than those who drop high seed rates

by PAT LYNCH

I have just left a grower with whom I talked about seeding rates of corn, beans and wheat.

Grower: “How come the scout report says that there are over 175,000 plants per acre, some places over 180,000, when all I dropped was 180,000.”

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