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The End Zone and Grain Temp Guard have been a game changer for storing grains. The best thing is when storing wheat, they make us money and save me time by adding moisture back and helps us from over drying corn. When wheat that’s going into storage over 100° and 7% to 8% moisture the End Zone helps cool the grain overnight and also adds humidity back into the bins. The best part is that I no longer have to go manually start the fans in the evening and hurry back to the bins in the morning to shut the fans off before it gets too hot out. I just set the temperature and humidity parameters and the fans turn on when needed and shut off when outside the parameters. So, we save money by only running the fans when conditions are ideal. The only key is to make sure that you leave room on the top of your grain bin for the wheat to expand. We also use The Grain Temp Guard when storing other commodities such as corn and buckwheat on the opposite end of the spectrum it helps us from over drying them. I like being able to see the humidity and temperatures at the top and the bottom of the bins. When using the bin heaters, I then can see how the temperature are changing throughout the bin. The Grain Temp Guards also help me monitor for hot spots. Each week I record the numbers so I can see if there are any changes I need to be concerned about. AIl I can say is I would highly recommend The End Zone and The Grain Temp Guards they paid for themselves in the 1st seasoning of having them.

In the spring of 2023, I had a very nice crop emergence. I had just one issue; my neighbor’s emergence was “more even”. On the clay hills some of my furrows opened up… his did not! He had the best emergence/most even-stand in the neighborhood. He has been using Germinator closing wheels by Farm Shop MFG, and has been very pleased with his results! With my resent purchase of 16 rows, I expect I will be just as pleased in the spring of 2024.

In the spring of 2021, I purchased some Germinator® closing wheels in an effort to do a better job of closing the furrow on the rows right by my tractor tracks. I bought twelve for the rows between and beside my duels. To my surprise, my problem furrow’s, became my best rows! The corn emerged easily a day earlier and with a more even stand. In 2022, all of my closing wheels are Germinators.

Spring of 2021, my sons and I decided to purchase spiked closing wheels for two of our three 24 row planters. After researching, my interest was in the performance generated by Farm Shop MFG®’s Germinator® steel closing wheel. The reviews of its inner-shoulder maximizing seed-soil-contact looked to make it the best performer. The 50 grade steel construction’s longevity also added value (after 4,500 acres, they still look new!).

My sons, following some research that they had read, wanted to get Yetter Twisters. We outfitted 23 rows on my planter with Germinator® closing wheels and one row of Twisters and 23 rows of Twisters on my sons planter with one row of Germinators. As we started out, aside from the “firm seed zone” generated by the Germinator®, we thought the results were similar. As crops started to emerge, we all fell into agreement; the Germinators were edging out the Twisters with performance by it’s “inner-shoulder-firmer”! I’m glad I didn’t let my boys talk me out of Germinator® closing wheels on my planter!