Ken Ferrie explains how to prioritize planter attachments, why digging cross-sections is essential for ground-truthing planter performance, and the hidden risks of excessive closing wheel downforce.

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Do you achieve enough yield gain to justify making a corn planter mechanically “perfect” each spring? Farm Journal Magazine’s Ken Ferrie has proven that emergence timing, minimal seed furrow ...