In February, Kinze introduced the 5700 24-row 20” planter equipped with the NEW 5000 Series row unit and many other advanced productivity features. Brad Niensteadt, a planter product expert at Kinze Manufacturing, explains how the 5700 can easily handle the challenges of narrow-row, no-till planting.

Marion Calmer had always thought he “just wanted to be a farmer,” but he’s a true innovator.

Steve Martin grew up on his dad Howard’s farm raising tobacco, corn, wheat and soybeans. After trying no-till farming in the early 1970s, Howard Martin wasn’t satisfied with the results he was seeing. Roughly a decade later, he decided to give it another try.

Gregg Sauder could be on a beach sipping a Mai Tai right now after selling Precision Planting for $250 million in 2012. But that’s just not in his DNA. An unrelenting drive and passion to help farmers succeed pushes him to keep grinding.

The family was presented with several obstacles in the first few decades including a factory burning down, financial troubles, Whalen’s grandfather getting cancer in the 1970s and eventually his own mother passing away in 1980.

Precision Planting product support specialist Clay Scott hosted a planter maintenance webinar to teach no-tillers how to set their planter up for success in 2023.