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    Check-row planting a tricky technique to master

    Sep 16, 2022 3 minutes

    Planting corn with a check-row planter wasn’t simple. The following passage, from a 1933 McCormick-Deering No. 102 corn planter operator’s manual, shows just how tricky the procedure could be.

    Laying out the wire

    Reel can be used on either side of the planter. In laying out wire, drive the planter to the edge of the field and place it in position to drive across the field where the first two rows are to

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