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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.

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.

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Measurable Difference

SeedSense Singulation Details Screen

This 20/20 SeedSense® screen shows real-world, row-by-row singulation errors for a planter. The left half was equipped with vSet and the right half with updated finger meters. The vSet ran 99.8% accurate, while the finger meters had excessive skips and doubles.

A Difference with Terrain

Created with the 20/20 SeedSense field data, these two maps plot singulation of a Kinze 16-row planter that was set up with half vSet and half OEM finger meters.

Green indicates >98.5% singulation
Yellow indicates 97% to 98.5% singulation
Red indicates < 97% singulation

The map on the left shows the OEM finger meter results. You can see the wide variation in singulation. The map on the right shows singulation for the vSet half of the planter. Using the same seed, same speed; planted at the same time, we see much better results.

A Difference with Seed

74% of the acres planted by the OEM meters on this field had < 98% singulation. 95% of the acres planted by the vSet meters on this field had > 98% singulation. The average singulation for the vSet meters for this field was 99.4%.

These maps show how plantability of the seed can effect singulation. The map on the left shows the singulation performance of finger meters. Two different seeds were used in planting this field. You can easily distinguish where the hybrid change is with the finger meters, but notice how vSet planted both seed types with the same high performance and consistency.

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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.