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So I got to tell you, one of the things that I was really impressed with, with this planter, after going through with the downforce technology,
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Mike Evans, my agronomist at home, we talked about the row-by-row downforce. The DeltaForce is a nine and a half bushel yield average over the five
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years that Evan's tested it. And then when you look at this planter, and that technology is not only on the row units, it's not only on the wing compensation,
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it's also on that secondary toolbar. Yep. And, I know it's flat enough here that we can see a dog run away for seven days, but
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it's potentially more important at my place with the elevation changes. But I still got to think with the sand and things like that here, and the different
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soil types, that it is important. Just how important is the secondary toolbar in these types of topography?
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Yeah, that's a great question. So, you could think that the more rolling hills with the way that this toolbar is laid out, and we'll get into that in a second, you could think that that was more important.
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But the way that this is designed, even in this flat ground, there's a lot of really good benefits to the way the toolbar is designed.
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So we talked a little bit about capacity and the way that this planter is built around that, and traditionally, we would still have to lift
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all that capacity and lower that capacity at every end of the field. And I think one of the things that we experienced here, where we're able to run
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high speed on flat ground, we're also may be able to come into the headland pretty fast. The ability to raise that toolbar separately from the weight of our
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mainframe is a big deal. It makes for a much faster cycle time of the planter and a better operator experience. So now we combine that in with
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using DeltaForce, and DeltaForce gives us the advantage of two-way
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control of the downforce. So not only can we create up to 650 pounds of downforce if we need it, as we've seen here in this condition, sometimes
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we don't need any, or we need to lift a little bit, and we can do that with DeltaForce. So by combining the capabilities of the precision
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planting DeltaForce with that vertical contouring toolbar, which is secondary to the mainframe, we're able to control the
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position of those row units very accurately and give DeltaForce the highest advantage of maintaining that consistent downforce as we need it.
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Yes. So by keeping it independent of this main toolbar carrying the weight, you're giving it all of the flexibility or all the movement it needs.
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And like our cameraman, Will, talked about when he walked across here, he said he's never seen soil that was this soft before.
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He felt like he was walking across a pillow. So the lifting of the DeltaForce, I think, is a huge component and will give you hopefully extra bushels and extra yield
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with this planter. So another thing that we always get questions about is why are the tires laid out the way that they are on the frame?
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And again, this is another way of minimizing the compaction created by these large planters. So we know that a lot of the compaction
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happens in the first pass of the tires across the field. So the way that we have this planter laid out, our in-line tandems in the center of
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the planter, they're going to follow right behind the tractor tracks. So we're keeping that same path of compaction straight where it was.
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The wing wheels, they're laid out different than any other planter on the market, in that as you turn around at the headland and come back your next pass, that end
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wheel is going to run right in the track of your previous pass and eliminate one more set of those compaction layers that we would
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traditionally have. Yeah. When you first notice the planter and you see it and the wheel configuration, it does seem unusual from what we're used to going across there, but there's a
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method to the madness. There is, absolutely. It's all about eliminating compaction. I think it's
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