American farmers use Monster machines to handle slow sow in spring planting
date:May 21, 2013
to efficiently distribute seed to each row, reducing how often farmers must stop to restock seed.

Climbing a ladder into the driver's seat of a Deere tractor recently, Spirit Farms' crop production manager Dane Killam said the technology in the machine is the next step in farming.

It's more-precision planting, Killam said.

The monster-sized machines have quickly gained a foothold. Nationwide, about 40 percent of planters are more than 16 rows wide, up from about 4 percent 10 years ago, accord

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