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Ray Halowaty of Cutknife, Saskatchewan, Canada
Ray is a direct seeding farmer that has successfully made the transistion to a 5720 Air Coulter Drill with Mid Row Banders®.

Ray is a direct seeding farmer that has successfully made the transistion from a 5710 Air Hoe Drill to a 5720 Air Coulter Drill with Mid Row Banders®. Ray has gained some appreciable benefits with 5720.
“I have noticed that the 5720 pulls considerably easier than the 5710. Both machines are 40’ yet I have gone from seeding at 4 mph with the 5710 to 5 mph with the 5720 with the same 240 H.P. tractor. Because soil moisture is conserved before seeding and there is very little disturbance, I get nice emergence with the 5720. There is not a problem with straw impeding penetration. In desiccation tracks, the disc snaps through the problem straw allowing the seed to be properly placed. I have good chopping and spreading equipment on my combine; this is important. Sometimes heavy cross winds can develop that do not allow even spreading of the chaff from the combine leaving chaff clumps. There is more of a problem penetrating these clumps of chaff than penetrating problem straw,” comments Ray.
Seeding and harvesting legumes can often take extra effort to get the job done. For Ray the 5720 make growing peas more pleasurable. “Because the disk does not dig up stones I no longer have to “land roll” the fields. This keeps the stubble standing for the crop to vine up, protects the young seedlings from the wind, makes the crop considerably easier to harvest and reduces the chances of disease setting in. It also saves time and money. The time required for an additional pass and the hassle of obtaining a land roller is eliminated and of coarse the additional cost is also eliminated. The roller rental alone is $3.00 plus fuel and tractor depreciation. No one likes picking stones and now that I am running the all coulter system picking stones is a thing of the past. Now that is a feature in itself.”

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