EddinKY
Member
Broadcast seeder choice?
I’m looking for some practical, and experienced advice about buying a small broadcast seeder to over-seed 40 acres of hay and pasture. Seeds will be orchard grass and timothy in hay, and orchard grass and clover in pastures. In the past I have just mixed seed into the cone fertilizer spreader for pastures, but that is very hit or miss. I now have the fertilizer custom spread on the hay fields, so seed mixing doesn’t work.
I don’t mind making several passes over the field, but spread width is important.
Questions: brands... what you have owned and were reliable? Herd vs. Seed Easy (Garber).
Are any of the smaller ATV seeders reliable? A 100 lb capacity is plenty.
3 point or 2” receiver? (I don’t own an ATV) and fields are not conducive to using a pickup truck.
PTO or electric? I don’t want a ground drive model.
Thanks for your input.
I’m looking for some practical, and experienced advice about buying a small broadcast seeder to over-seed 40 acres of hay and pasture. Seeds will be orchard grass and timothy in hay, and orchard grass and clover in pastures. In the past I have just mixed seed into the cone fertilizer spreader for pastures, but that is very hit or miss. I now have the fertilizer custom spread on the hay fields, so seed mixing doesn’t work.
I don’t mind making several passes over the field, but spread width is important.
Questions: brands... what you have owned and were reliable? Herd vs. Seed Easy (Garber).
Are any of the smaller ATV seeders reliable? A 100 lb capacity is plenty.
3 point or 2” receiver? (I don’t own an ATV) and fields are not conducive to using a pickup truck.
PTO or electric? I don’t want a ground drive model.
Thanks for your input.