Bad weather is a good time to go through planters

An agronomist says farmers should take advantage of the less-than-ideal spring weather to go over their planters.

Scott Rowntree is a field agronomist for Pioneer in southern Wisconsin.  He tells Brownfield it’s a good time to check things beyond the usual grease fittings. “Raise that planter up and go behind each row unit. Move it side to side and up and down. You might need to replace the bushings on those parallel linkages if we’re seeing a lot of side-to-side movement.

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