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JOHN DEERE'S NEW DB120 PLANTS 48 ROWS ON 30-IN. CENTERS.
Imagine you're planting down the middle of your local high school football field. With John Deere/Bauer Built's newest planter, the DB 120, you'd only have 20 ft. from each outside row unit to the sidelines - thanks to its 120-ft.-wide toolbar.
"As growers get bigger, they're looking for more productivity from their equipment to plant more acres per day," says Rob Rippchen, Deere's division marketing manager for the new planter. "At 120 ft., the DB120 has 30% more productivity than our 36-row, DB90 planter and will match up with our 12-row corn heads."
Depending on field conditions, the DB120 should plant 90-100 acres/hour at the recommended 5-5V6 mph, according to Rippchen.
It's not just big, it's high-tech. "The DB120 is a front-fold, 5-section, flex-frame planter equipped with CCS RefugePlus and Pro-Series XP row units," Rippchen says. "The planter will be offered with 125 bu. of seed capacity, SeedStar 2 monitoring and variable-rate seed drives, pneumatic down force and RowCommand as standard equipment." Front-mounted coulters or row cleaners are optional.
THE DBI20'S frame basically is a bigger version of the company's DB90 planter built by Vaughn Bauer, Bauer Built Manufacturing Inc., Paton, IA. The DB120's outer wings are 30-ft. sections, rather than the 15-ft. outer wings on the DB90. The three center sections on...