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Plant Grass and Clover Seeds

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What happens here

Load the Haybuster 107C seed drill with the Contractor's Choice grass seed mix (fescue and rye grass) into one hopper and Ladino clover seed into another. Set the drill to plant grass seed at approximately 28-32 pounds per acre, and clover at a lower rate (setting #1). Drive the John Deere tractor, pulling the seed drill, in overlapping passes across the entire field. The seed drill creates small furrows, deposits the seeds, and then covers them with soil, ensuring good seed-to-soil contact. The rye grass will sprout quickly (within 48 hours) to prevent erosion, while the fescue and clover will establish a long-term, nutrient-rich pasture. Clover actively fixes nitrogen into the soil, reducing the need for future chemical fertilizers.

Goal: Plant a mixture of fescue, rye grass, and Ladino clover seeds using a seed drill to establish a new pasture, focusing on long-term soil fertility and erosion control.

Tools and materials

  • Haybuster 107C Seed Drill
  • John Deere Tractor
  • Small Vise Grip
  • Contractor's Choice Grass Seed Mix
  • Ladino Clover Seed

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and shaping right there so we are in second gear high range we're getting on up the red and let's say we're hitting that at about 12 miles an hour 13 hours like that protect the specs on the jacket this is I believe in the 86 Massey Ferguson 240 please excuse the bad audio so we've had our first breakdown I'll show you what happened this is the clover hopper clover is expensive it's around 250 bucks - 300 bucks per 50-pound bag it is expensive okay so these tubes right here and I didn't know this but these tubes they drop the seed and I did know that there's a little window right here I'll get you close up in a second there's a little window right there and it fits full of seed you've got a clogged tube whether it's this tube here or one of these tubes down here well what we didn't know is we had a clogged too so one of the tubes got clogged up now what the guy didn't tell me what he didn't show me and we went through all this we went to top to bottom on this machine this is a third time I've used it never even known this there is an adjuster right here for how much clover you dropped we put it on setting number one setting number one we'll set the right amount the clover seed out for me to finish my job well we didn't show me and we walked around this machine yesterday so lessons learned guys if you're gonna grant one of the you need to look it over really good read the manual I don't know I can only blame myself really but there's another adjuster over here and this adjuster doesn't have a knife oh it's not holding it in place it's not holding it on the number one plus somebody was renting some other kind of seed through it and they had it set on number twelve so we're gonna hop up on the top of the seed drill here if I don't fall in the pond we'll hop up here real quick and we're gonna take a look in our clover hopper almost empty over here plenty of clover over here almost empty mistakes cost you money that's just it mistakes on the farm cost you money that probably cost me about 40 bucks right there that's stupid little thing and I've got to run back to the house the equipment wasn't functioning properly and I guess what stupid hurt right the the equipment was not functioning properly I feel like before he handed it off to me he should have handed me a piece of equipment that if it looked over and when we went through and adjusted it we should have adjusted both sides like I said I only have myself to blame you learn you live you learn if you're not…

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