AUDIO: Mike Gryp, Kinze Manufacturing
Each year growers want to cover more and more acres but have planting population issues.
Kinze?s Mike Gryp hopes once their new planter is on the market, it will help.
?We?ve seen growers go to a 60 foot corn planter and they’re sacrificing the yields because they are doing 30 inch beans to cover more acres. There hasn?t been a good solution for 15 inch beans on a 60 foot planter,? Gryp says.
The planter offers improved safety and functionality for farmers with large field operations.
The prototype has a center pivot, narrow 12-foot transport design for safer road travel and improved maneuverability in and out of the field. It is the narrowest transport width in the industry for a 60-foot split row planter, in most cases eliminating the requirement for a road permit.
Kinze Manufacturing showed off their patent-pending prototype 60 row planter at this year?s Farm Progress Show in Decatur, IL.
There is no set release date yet.
