NDF Disc Planters

Purchased a 24m NDF Disc Planter 2018 after being unhappy with his current planter. After looking on YouTube and liking what he saw R.H. asked his agronomist what he thought of the NDF, who confirmed the NDF would be a good choice based on both his experiences and his peer’s recommendations.
Looking over the fence at the NDF operating in wetter conditions than he was able to operate with his tine machine R.H. soon realised his current tyne planter was inadequate and potentially costing him money. The NDF machine was getting so much done, for R.H. the decision to go to a 24m when buying his new planter, was “all about the efficiencies”.

First purchased an NDF machine in 2008 and traded up in 2018. G.O. said there were a couple of main reasons to trade in the 2008 NDF on a new NDF 24m machine. Firstly, they were going flat-out with the NDF 12m machine to get sowing done and it was getting too risky with the sowing window being so short.
Double cropping chick peas into dryland cotton has been working for G.O. well, but again the short sowing window between cotton harvest and chick pea planting was proving difficult to manage with the 12m.
Finally, the purchase of more land meant upgrading to the NDF 24m needed to happen because there was no way G.O. wanted to run two 12m machines! G.O. called to let us know how his machine going at the time of writing this article, he was planting wheat 5 inches deep and leaving 2 inches over the seed “doing a far better job than a tyne machine would” according to G.O.

Bought his first NDF Disc Planter in 2017 after he did plenty of research. Such as talking to local growers who had been operating NDF Disc Planters for a number of years, and online research, including what was being said on blogs by other owners and operators.
This was good way to gauge how the NDF was regarded in the larger market place. Weight for digging in and moisture seeking, found there where not a lot of other options in that regard but NDF was a good fit in this regard also. No greasing of row units appealed to L.G. to reduce downtime during sowing

Bought his second Disc Planter in 2018. He found that after doing the first 15,000 Ha season with his NDF that operating costs were $0.52 per Ha compared with almost $3.50 for the other brand planter for the same area.
L.G said that maintenance on the NDF was much simpler compared to the other planter he had therefore staff no longer needed to be as highly skilled to do the maintenance.
When L.G. leased more land he needed to either, rebuild the old inferior disc planter, or buy a second NDF to get over the additional area, It made good business sense to buy the second NDF Disc Planter.