Corn seeder: device, types, features and reviews

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-07 20:55

Corn in the fields can be planted in different ways - nesting, row, exact dotted, zigzag. Manually in our time, this plant, of course, is not sown. Special equipment is used for this purpose. Designs designed for planting grains of such a crop are called seeders. For corn, a variety of types of equipment can be used.

Main types by way of use

This type of technique can be used for planting corn seeds:

• trailed;
• mounted.

In the first case, the corn seeder is, in fact, a separate device that moves on its own wheels. Mounted seeders are aggregated with tractors directly.

Also, such equipment can be classified according to the method of planting corn grains. In this regard, there are, for example, seeders 6-, 8-, 12-, 16-, 24- and 36-row.

Recently, modern tilled equipment of this type has become very popular, allowing you to sow seeds with an accurate dotted method. When using such seeders, you cansignificantly save on planting material without loss in terms of yield. In addition, this method facilitates the subsequent care of corn plantings.

Also, some models of modern seeders allow you to sow in a zigzag method. When using this technology, the area of plant nutrition and their illumination increase. And this, of course, has the most favorable effect on productivity.

Seeders can also be used in agriculture, allowing planting in square-nest and other ways. All modern models of this type can be used not only for sowing corn itself, but also for peanuts, cotton, etc.

Corn planter arrangement

The main design elements of this type of equipment are:

• frame on wheels;
• several working sections with seeds;
• seed storage;
• metering devices or discs, the shape of which determines the method of planting.

The number of sections in modern seeders determines the planting row. In many models, if desired, drums can be removed from the frame or vice versa added. This allows you to exactly follow the technology of planting a particular hybrid or variety of corn. Remove sections from the frame of planters, for example, when using cross planting technology (first along the field, and then across or diagonally).

Views by design

In this regard, today there are mainly two types of corn planters:

• mechanical;
• pneumatic.

The first type of equipment is currently considered morally somewhat obsolete. Some foreign companies have even stopped the production of such seeders. The main disadvantage of mechanical structures is that in order to change seeds, which have different sizes for different varieties of corn, or to adjust the row spacing, they need to remove the entire working body. Moreover, you have to spend a lot of time on this procedure.

More modern pneumatic seeders do not have this disadvantage. Such equipment saves time, increases productivity and, as a result, reduces costs. In addition, a feature of such corn planters is often that they allow simultaneously with planting material to apply fertilizer to the ground.

The downside of this technique is primarily the high cost. Also, seeders of this type often work inefficiently in fields with problematic soil. In some cases, for example, they cannot be used in those areas where the roots of plants grown last season remained in the ground.

Equipment Brands

Many companies produce such seeders today - both domestic and foreign. If desired, you can purchase a model designed for any tractor power. On sale today there is such equipment, designed, among other things, forprivate farms. For example, if necessary, you can purchase a corn seeder for a walk-behind tractor. Of course, companies specializing in the production of agricultural machinery also produce similar equipment designed for aggregation with mini-tractors.

If we talk about brands, then the most popular among farmers and employees of agricultural holdings at the moment are, for example, seeders:

• Gaspardo;
• Amazon.

The equipment of these manufacturers allows you to plant corn as quickly as possible and with minimal losses. Also, seeders of such brands as John Deere (USA), Lindselmash (Belarus), Krasnaya Zvezda (Ukraine) deserved very good reviews from consumers.

Gaspardo models: features and reviews

Pneumatic corn planters of this brand are made in Italy. Specifications they have are:

• optimum travel speed when sowing a field is 7-10 km/h;
• sectors on the frame - 4-12;
• storage capacity - 36-60 l;
• seed consumption - 60-70 kg/ha;
• planting depth - up to 12 cm;
• width of rows - 45-75 cm.

Farmers and employees of agro-holdings attribute, first of all, a rather high seeding rate to the advantages of this technique. Also, a great advantage of the models of this brand is the maximum accuracy of the distribution of planting material. Another indisputable advantage of corn seeders "Gaspardo"is that their design allows fertilizers to be applied to the ground simultaneously with seeds. As for the reliability of this brand, consumers also have no complaints.

The 8-row corn seeder of this MTP-8 brand is especially convenient and economical for farmers. According to farmers, this model optimally combines price and quality. This seeder, unlike many other pneumatic seeders, can also be used on problematic soils. The Gaspardo model works great, as farmers say, even, for example, in those fields where the roots of plants from the previous sowing remained.

Amazone seeder: reviews

Pneumatic models of this brand are produced by the German company of the same name. This manufacturer's EDX corn planter, which belongs to the precision planting group, for example, has the following performance characteristics:

• speed on the field - up to 15 km/h;
• row spacing - 37-80 mm;
• embedding depth - 2 -10 cm;
• seed hopper capacity - 40-80 l.

Consumers find these models ideal for both small and large areas. Among the advantages of Amazone corn planters, farmers include, among other things, a simplified fertilizer setting, the possibility of narrow-row sowing, and a large hopper capacity.

Another undoubted advantage of the models of this brand, consumers believe that the accuracy of seed placement with theiruse does not depend on the degree of wear of their coulters. Today, not all corn seeders, even from well-known foreign manufacturers, can boast of such a property.

Cost

The price of such equipment depends on its technical characteristics, as well as the brand. Seeder "Amazone" EDX 12-row trailed, for example, costs about 4-5 million rubles. depending on supplier.

The price of the Gaspardo 8-row hinged model is about 500 thousand rubles. Lindselmash equipment can cost from 100 to 500 thousand rubles.

Is it possible to make a corn planter with your own hands

Of course, it will be extremely problematic to make a large structure of this type on your own. But, of course, you can try to make a mini version of a do-it-yourself corn seeder. It will not be difficult to make a fixture of this type, for example, using the following structural elements:

• seed filling drum;
• dispenser sleeves;
• seed pipeline;
• frames and wheels for moving around the field.

Blind holes will need to be drilled at the edges of the bushing of such a seeder. They are needed to fill the storage with the appropriate seed material. It will be convenient and extremely simple to work with a self-assembled seeder of this type in the future.

All structural elements of such equipment are attached to the frame with the wheel. Next to herthe handle is welded. By pushing such a self-made model in front of you, it will be possible to process the field very quickly. At the same time, a do-it-yourself seeder will cost inexpensively.