According to a Southeast Farm Press article, John Deere’s ExactEmerge planter was recently showcased during a clinic held near Hillsboro, Ala., impressing attendees with its dynamic features.
Mark Hamilton, owner of Hamilton Farms and Hillsboro Gin was one of the attendees at the event. He used the ExactEmerge planter all throughout his corn planting this season, planting between 26,000 and 33,000 seeds per acre. Hamilton took to the fields with the 12-row ExactEmerge set for 30-inch rows, planting 300 acres of corn in one-and-a-half days, according to the article.
“The ExactEmerge is the best planter I’ve ever seen as far as uniform spacing,” Hamilton said. “The spacing will be uniform even when you’re going up to 10 miles per hour. I’m going for that picket fence emergence that translates to high yields. And uniform emergence helps management throughout the season.”
John Deere’s ExactEmerge planter has to potential to be especially useful in areas of the southeast like Hillsboro, Alabama, where rains during critical times of the planting season often shrink the window that producers have to get seed in the ground. At the time of its release, the ExactEmerge was dubbed as a “true game changer,” allowing producers to achieve exceptional seed spacing at speeds up to 10 mph, leveraging a patented seed delivery system selects seeds at the meter then delivers them precisely, with virtually no roll or bounce to the bottom of the seed trench.
The ExactEmerge planter continues to get positive reviews from around the farming community, as a recent clinic gave producers in the Hillsboro, Alabama area an opportunity to see it in action.