How it Works
Every Milton Precision Planter is custom-designed to your specifications. This includes the skip-plant seed wheels that vary the spacing between seeds. Once your planting system is designed, it is fully assembled and tested before it leaves our facility. When it arrives, all you have to do is attach it to your toolbar and start planting.
Milton Precision Planters feature interchangeable seed wheels and drive gears, which give the planters a nearly infinite number of seed-spacing options. We provide the widest-range of seed wheels of any planter, and with eight pack wheel options, our planters are able to handle even the most challenging soil conditions.
Milton Precision Planters automatically meter seeds at varying ground speeds, which virtually eliminates skipped and damaged seeds. Precision placement eliminates thinning and reduces seed and fuel costs.
The "high-rise" toolbar linkage is adjustable for planter down-pressure when flat planting or planting on beds.
The heavy-gauge steel discs open a clean furrow. Then the seeds are placed using a unique process of carrying each seed on a custom-machined seed wheel that rotates inside a formed downspout, delivering each seed individually into the furrow at a specific depth. The seed drop is very short (less than 3"), virtually eliminating ricochet, and the static-free process also eliminates static interference with seed placement.
Each custom-machined seed wheel delivers exact seed spacing from 1/2" to 80". Seeding depth is controlled by depth bands that range from shallow planting at 3/8" to deep seeding at 2". Growers may also choose depth control frames versus depth bands—an options many other planters cannot offer.
To ensure the seeds are uniformly covered, the Milton Precision Planter uses one of eight different pack wheels to firm the seeds in virtually any soil type or condition. Two types of forward press wheels can be added to firm or mix the soil in front of the seeding operation.
