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| Mitch & Lynn Svangstu - Crosby, North Dakota |
Mitch and his brother Lynn Svangstu farm
together in the Crosby, ND area. This past year they seeded
peas, flax,
durum wheat, sunflowers, safflowers and lentils with a
Bourgault 5725 Air Coulter Drill. |
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Says Mitch, "Spring is a real crunch time,
and we have been looking for a way to get over our ground
as quickly as possible with the
least amount of soil disturbance possible. The incentives
available through the “Equip Program” make
a coulter type drill pretty attractive. We demonstrated
a competitor's coulter drill last year, but
the stumbling block was the inability to get our NH3
on in one-pass. Right now there are no other Bourgault coulter drills in our area, but we decided to
give it one a try as we had such good luck with our
5710. We were confident that if we did have trouble, Bourgault
would be there to back us up. Looking back, it
is really unbelievable how well the 5725 worked. We seeded
some flax directly into sunflower stubble, and
the conditions were pretty tough. I think we had the best
start ever, so much so that we had 3 different neighbors
stop by and ask what we used to seed that field. It really
came up beautifully."
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“Even
though
we have our drill set up to apply urea, we like NH3
because the price usually pencils out better. With the
mid row
banders, we had no seedling injury at all, even at some
pretty high rates. Our seed placement
was good too…we seeded
peas at
2" deep and flax at ½ inch. We slowed down
a little bit for seed placement
on our confection sunflowers, but otherwise kept the
speed at about 7 mph. I think we got our best start ever
in most cases. We never harrowed
anything either, it was seed, spray and
harvest. That saved a lot of time.”
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The improvements to the 6000 series air seeder cart were
phenomenal. One day we set the machine to seed 2.8 lbs./acre
of sunflowers, and put in enough seed for 160 acres.
We finished the field at 158.9 acres with a handful of
seed left – I’d
say it’s the
best cart out there. You can go from alfalfa all the
way to confection sunflowers with no meter
changes. That’s pretty nice.
The monitor is simple and user-friendly
as well.”
"At the end of the day, we are very happy with our Bourgault.
It’s built good and heavy — like
it was made for our area. We go from heavy
clay to light soil, so we need a machine that is versatile.
We know the company will stand behind
us if we do have any unusual trouble.
They have a good reputation to make it right. Even a
bushel or two an acre makes a huge difference
and on our farm the Bourgault has done
very well for us." |
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