Tools for improving depth control, singulation, seed environment and yield.

How we can help?

Spacing? Depth? Speed? Residue? Seedbed? Which problem is costing you the most during planting? Look here to uncover the cost of poor planter performance . . . and simple solutions to fix them.
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Populations. Spacing. Placement.

Higher populations mean that the placement of every plant - every seed - is critical. Corn plants closer than 4" sense high population and react to the high stress environment. But with a little effort, today's planters can achieve spacing accuracy of 97% or more. Find out how.

Depth. Compaction. Residue.

Uniform emergence is the most important event in a cornfield's year. Plants that do not emerge within 48 hours after their neighbors turn into "weeds". Creating a good, clean seed V, getting seeds to the bottom of the trench and eliminating compaction can get plants off to a uniform start.

Measure. Monitor. Control.

Find and Fix planter problems before they cost you a dime. New monitoring and sensing systems can identify expensive issues you can't detect in the shop. And with new control systems, you can set and forget critical functions like downforce adjustments, VR populations and Row Control.

vSet

Precision Planting has packed the best features of our eSet system into a housing that fits in the same space as the traditional finger meter and EdgeVac® planters. vSet is plug-and-play; just install it and go. It’s easy to use and maintain.

vSet Housing

With the meter you get:

  • A rugged poly housing body that is both light and durable.
  • A flat, 27-hole corn disk with special relief ports that provide agitation for seed-pool loading and consistent release. Disks are also available for soybeans.
  • A five lobe, spring loaded singulator that needs no adjustment for seed size and maintains consistent contact with the disk. You can easily swap singulators to match different crops.
  • A seed extractor with a rolling wheel that keeps fragments from plugging holes in the disk. It snaps into position and changes out quickly to match disks.
  • A sliding gate on the inlet lets you control the seed pool for various types of crops.
  • A meter drive that matches up to existing chain drive systems on Deere 7000 & 7200 and Kinze 2000 & 3000 finger meter planters, plus Kinze EdgeVac.
  • A small cavity vacuum seal that, coupled with the small housing, means lower air needs for higher efficiency and a crisp cutoff for consistent seed release.

Vacuum on a Finger Planter?

To run the new vSet on your existing finger planter, we can provide a complete hydraulic vacuum system that will provide the vacuum you need for each row. This system includes a motor, impeller and the ductwork to each row. Each of our hydraulic vacuum systems can typically provide the vacuum needed for 16 rows.

Your system capacity, however, is based on your tractor’s flow rate and pressure. Our Precision Planting dealers are trained on how to select the right motor and hydraulics for each system. Talk to them for help setting up a system that works for your situation.

You can put the high performance and adjustment-free flexibility of vSet on EdgeVac planters. You simply swap out the EdgeVac meters and mount the new vSet meters with standard ASD boxes for the vSet meter and standard Kinze boxes.

EdgeVac is a registered trademark of the Kinze Manufacturing, Inc. There is no affiliation between Precision Planting, Inc. and Kinze Manufacturing, Inc.

vSet

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What is Singulation?
Singulation is the measure of how accurate a meter segregates seed from the seed pool for planting. Our measure is in percentage of how many times it segregates one seed and only seed out for planting without errors.

Why is Singulation Important?
Singulation accounts for both meter errors that result in skips and multiples. Other metrics such as population and average spacing values can mask skips and multiples, which leads to false conclusions about meter and planting performance.
It pays to plant with Precision.