If you’re wanting to adopt the latest in planter tech, you can easily shell out $350K for a new 24-row, central-fill machine with all the bells and whistles. But as the price of fresh paint keeps rising, more and more producers are keeping their older planters and opting to install retrofit kits and upgrades to take advantage of the latest planter innovations and boost planting performance.
Adding hydraulic down-pressure — such as the Delta Force from Precision Planting — allows each row unit to achieve targeted seed depth more than 90% of the time.
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