Is this the most high-tech corn planter?
This John Deere 1770 24-30 was purchased new in 2014 from the Lanark, IL location of Sloan Implement. The owner then built the liquid fertilizer system from the ground up. There are 4 hydraulically driven fertilizer pumps that are all electronically controlled. You can adjust the fertilizer independently for each row on a controller that the owner made custom for the planter. He can also monitor the flow to each row. The planter can apply 60 gallons of fertilizer per acre and there is a 2500 gal tank pulled behind the planter.
New installs on the planter for 2017 are Dawn hydraulic downforce fertilizer openers, Dawn air adjust frame mounted row cleaners, Ag Leader hydraulic downforce, spoke gauge wheels, JD ExactEmerge high-speed retro-fit kit, and Dawn spike closing wheels. He will be pulling this planter with a 9560RT track tractor.
Here are some pictures of the planter in the Lanark service department as they make these updates.
2014 JD 1770NT 24-30 Planter
Profile of Retrofitted ExactEmerge Row Unit
Dawn Hydraulic Downforce Liquid Fertilizer Openers
Ag Leader Hydraulic Row Downforce
Dawn Air Adjust Row Cleaners and Spoke Gauge Wheels
Fertilizer Pumps
Custom Control Box
If you have a planter that is higher tech, we’d love to write about it here. Send an email to [email protected] and we will share pictures on our blog.
If you are interested in an ExactEmerge retrofit kit, you can learn more by reading a previous post by Lucas Veale here.
Sloan Support is written by the product support team at Sloan Implement, a 20 location John Deere dealer in Illinois and Wisconsin. Learn more at www.sloans.com