Adjusting Seed Rate and Mechanism Overview

don't grow so well in drought conditions once they set down roots they can hold it but without setting down roots and that's what you want the first three or four months is setting down roots so let's get busy fire the tractor up load this critter up and get her done don't overfill it's too expensive [Music] if you feel it too full and you hit a bump it will bounce out so you can see this guys you waste a little bit of seed but we're learning here right we're all learning every day guys there aren't a whole lot of young people that are really into this farm think so if you find somebody who has the aptitude and is interested in farming like this definitely get them to help you for sure give them that opportunity for sure i didn't have that opportunity as a young man i just had to pick up hay bales all right folks i hope you're enjoying the video today please jump in pound that like button i'd love to have you back on the channel jump in subscribe this is awesome awesome farm content here building small family farms here in the foothills of the blue ridge mountains in north carolina so this tractor is about 110 horsepower i'd say you could probably use anywhere from a 55 horsepower up to the largest tractor you'd like to use to pull this precision superseder it does a fantastic job and the germination rate is so much better with the precision superseder versus broadcast seating [Music] now what you can't see is that the fella in the tractor is bouncing around quite a bit and you can probably see the machine is bouncing around a little bit remember the word of the day undulations so that machine will cruise around over top of any little gullies and washes and almost smooth them out following the undulations of the land or the contour of the land basically it has a setting on the top link where it floats across the land so we can go up and down free of the tractor it's a beautiful day here guys just absolutely gorgeous [Music] i want to let you guys know there are a lot of programs out there so check your local ag extension office and see if there are any programs that can help you out with your seed to reseed your land or to plant native species there's some awesome programs out there [Music] so while you're running this machine you want to go around do a couple laps and check it check your hopper make sure you're not running out and you'll kind of get an idea of how long you can run it before you have to put grass seed on it so we're checking it about every…