54 Row JOHN DEERE Corn Planter

In this video Big Tractor Power is out in the field with a 90ft wide 54 Row 20 inch spaced JOHN DEERE DB90 Corn Planter operated by a 470 hp JOHN DEERE 9470RX Narrow Track tractor . This video shares the sights and sounds of planting corn in Western Kentucky. The video shares the 54 row DB90 corn planters specs and capabilities in the field and its list price. Viewers will ride along in cab of the tractor and visit with farmer to hear about his experience running a 90ft wide corn planter.
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[@nathanalmond8280]

What a planter. Amazing how big they are becoming. As a kid a 4 row was common and a 6-8 row was getting big and a 16 row was huge.

[@bigtractorpower]

I remember the first time I saw a 16 row it seemed so big. Where I grew up the 6 and 12 row planters were the norm in the 70s to the 90s. Today 16 row corn planters are the most sold size of corn planter.

[@easylooker]

Charlie and his brother both are some nice guys and one of the biggest farmers I know of.

[@bigtractorpower]

Very nice people and farm 👍👍

[@drewl4762]

What's the name of there farm? Would he a cool operation to see.

[@thomasvogelgesang667]

Oh, my gosh. That is one big planter. Awesome video. Thanks for taking me along.

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@timjorden8329]

This is the best channel for fans of farm videos, or anyone interested in modern agriculture equipment. He is very knowledgeable and seems genuinely interested in this and the farmers obviously enjoy taking him along

[@davidlynn254]

Another great video !! Always enjoy seeing Charlie's big operation.

[@alanellis9158]

That is one beast of a planter!!

[@RealJohnWayne]

"Nothing Runs Like A Deere" 🦌👍🇺🇸 BIG JOHN

[@EventHorizon34]

I’ve become fascinated with these giant seed planters! Amazing tractor and planter!

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching. I will have a video out on the 120ft DB120 model later this month

[@EventHorizon34]

@@bigtractorpower You’re welcome, I look forward to seeing your next video.

[@404nitro]

The DB 90 and 120 are always very fun to watch. Lot more pieces to change out though on the 20" models when row cleaners and press wheels etc wear out. I like the way he has the 470 set up. Looks really good out there in the field like that.

[@kishascape]

The little 8 row model is so cute. Wish my grandparents didn’t reverse mortgage their rural house. I could’ve used one of these on it after inheritance hehe

[@2020Tundra]

That’s an impressive unit, for sure. I bet it takes quite some time to grease it 😮

[@MilkMan608]

Gotta like the big grin on his face.

[@bigtractorpower]

Charlie always has smile out in the field. Happy to be farming.

[@vickiemeisinger9632]

This would illuminate needing for five farmers helping you get a feel planted at the same time like that did you know 50-75 years ago ago… I have a wonderful black-and-white picture of my father-in-law and my grandfather in law and a brother of my father-in-law and two other men all come and down the field with their tractors and planters one behind the other just so much so that they don’t run into each other but spacing out the field rows perfectly and it was an impressive site and it’s one of my favorite farming pictures in terms of history. But this illuminates the need of five tractors and it is very appreciative John Deere to come out with us I must say. I’ve got to send this video to my son who has been farming he was A teenager and he’s 40 now. He just loves it and he will be amazed at the price of this piece of equipment. Thank you for sharing!!!!!

[@TerrellSpivey]

54 row 20 inch spacing is close! I'm surprised to see him using the row markers with all the tech going on there! Man! Mind blowing! Lol We just got thru planting our corn with our 8 row planter on 30 inch spacing lol sweet video brother!

[@kygreenskeeper8326]

Awesome Jason... I'd like to run a rig like that sometime.. until then I'm stuck with the 784 international pulling the old new idea seeder....

[@blainechorman8664]

Thats planter is awesome. Great video

[@marcelocunico5341]

Great vídeo Jason.

[@walkerweldingllc2001]

Great job on the footage and editing!!

[@JD-oh9vz]

Ladies and Gentlemen, now that's a damn planter.

[@Aspire2Cycle]

Go big or go home! Love it.

[@davidfischer2309]

Thanks, what a fine video!!!

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@bobsmith1814]

Great video as usual. I enjoy watching the farm implements do farm yoga:folding up for transport

[@mikem3941]

Best video ever!👍

[@SimonKL11]

What an impressive planter😉👍 Nice video👍😁

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching Simon.

[@kennethgreen2829]

Wow, that is some width on that planter. Cool video BTP.

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching. Stay tuned for a feature on the DB120.

[@tractorchannel1922]

Wow, amazing👍👍👍🚜🚜

[@mrourcanada8964]

Doesn’t take long to plant corn when you have a planter that size very impressive

[@douglassellers7528]

That is one cool planter.

[@bigtractorpower]

It’s a giant. It was neat to film this one.

[@mrbunny8050]

That would be crazy servicing all of the row units. But then again winters get pretty long to do so.

[@kishascape]

I always wanted to ride on the back of one of these. Right on the stairs between the tanks.

[@interman7715]

Real nice rig.

[@bigtractorpower]

It is neat to see at work.

[@farminglife3869]

Keep up with the good content

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching. Lots of spring tillage and planting videos on the way.

[@joseluisgordillolopez8667]

I Wish to drive one like that one some day 😅 another great video Mr.

[@bigtractorpower]

It is neat to see this planter in the field. It probably takes a bit of getting used to planting with it. It’s a cool machine.

[@SebastianWarth]

Awesome Video Buddy!!

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you Sebastian. Stay tuned for a DB120 this month.

[@carynix8043]

Awesome video

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching.

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

That’s awesome

[@bigtractorpower]

It can get up and cover a field pretty quickly. I am looking forward to your 2022 corn planting videos.

[@mikeengen1360]

Things sure have changed since I was farming back in the early 70's. But it is very interesting to watch. Great job!!!

[@bigtractorpower]

The size and speed of modern machinery is impressive. The 70’s a time of big advancements in farm farm equipment.

[@ronaldmolinasandoval1849]

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[@piperdoug428]

Yeah like you said it's not so much about the width but more the openers, kinda like what The Welkers are finding with their new tool bar

[@noehueber6602]

Hello everyone big tractor power good vidéo acres on the field

[@scottpykare801]

Awesome video Jason. Makes me wonder how big equipment will get through better technology? Very cool!!

[@bigtractorpower]

You have to think we are getting close to the limit but just think what farms thought of a 12 row corn planter in the 1960’s.

[@scottpykare801]

@@bigtractorpower Exactly.

[@frankscruggs4749]

Good video.

[@bigtractorpower]

Thank you for watching Frank

[@oldben1800]

thats insane

[@matthewkuboushek1614]

There's a guy around Charles City Iowa with 2 of the John 48 row 30inch planters which where modified to have even more rows making the planter several yards wider than factory.

[@farmboy5622]

Totally awesome!!! Pretty much gone, are the days using an Allis Chalmers WD-45 pulling a 4-row John Deere planter with 36" spaced rows.

[@bigtractorpower]

Stay tuned. I have a 1974 Oliver 6 row planter filmed. 😁

[@scottallred3941]

We had allis chalmers d17 and 185’s. 4 row ac planter jd 4 row cultivator. Had jd 55B combine which we upgraded to f2 gleaner. After mid 80’s it took off from there . All magnum 7140’s

[@ecksdog]

I find tractors with tires more enjoyable to watch. Anyone else?

[@farmboy5622]

Especially the big LSW tires!!!

[@bigtractorpower]

Tracks offer so much more speed in especially in tillage. Tire tractors are selling less and less units where I live.

[@bigtractorpower]

LSW tires are impressive. Where I live tracks and triple tires and the best option to get the power to the ground in the red clay soils here. LSW seems to work well farther north.

[@JacobDoffing42]

My bosses farm corn every year because they have a dairy farm. They use a John Deere 8120 with tinted windows and a John Deere 1750 8 row planter that has liquid fertilizer tanks on it and small 1 bushel seed boxes.

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool planting team. Thank you for sharing.

[@JacobDoffing42]

@@bigtractorpower no problem Jason. Have a nice day!

[@DoingDounuts]

The stance in the 9RX though

[@user-su1cl1jz1f]

مبدع حبي

[@farmer_4850]

Actually the DB planters are not made by John Deere in Moline Illinois. The frame was designed and still is built by Bauer Built manufacturing of Paten Iowa and they still build them to this day for deere. Deere supplies them with everything but the frame and they assemble the rest for Deere . Also Bauer built has designed a number of different things for mother Deere including the first prototype track design they used on the 9rx tractors. I thought I'd tell you this so you can correct yourself the next time you film a DB planter. I learned this from a guy that works at the HQ of John Deere. But you can do a simple google search to see I'm right. LOVE THE VIDEOS KEEP UP THE GREAT CONTENT!!

[@ahmetsen7408]

Great video Jason. Nice machines. But i wonder before planting corn did they cultivate the ground? Because it looks Like Only harvested and mulched. Thanks for answer by the way.

[@bigtractorpower]

This is no till planting. They directly seed into the soybean stubble from the crop harvested the previous fall.

[@armchairgeneral7557]

BTP we have seen your videos with him harvesting with that 24 row corn head.

[@bigtractorpower]

That is correct. It is a neat farm to visit.

[@marknicholson2718]

I love the fact that it has markers. In case your GPS subscription runs out.

[@bigtractorpower]

I have several minutes of footage of this planter using the marker but opted to save that footage for a future video.

[@brisca6010]

Here i go thinking a 12 row is huge (Btw im from Belgium we use moltible small feilds not huge ones that's not a options for us but would be dope

[@chrishaupt9739]

I love wheat Harvest combine john deere

[@tsint]

It almost looks like it will break when folded :)

[@brentwoodrumfarms9236]

what county if I may ask great video thx

[@teampenn2007]

Can someone explain what purpose those wings (that were folded) on the outside of the planter serve?

[@danielsizer2222]

Now that’s a drill

[@markkeister6057]

Great video. Interested in what the fuel cost in a day pulling that planter is.

[@bigtractorpower]

That is a good question. I will ask it next time.

[@markkeister6057]

@@bigtractorpower cool. We are paying 6.25 for on road fuel here in NW PA.

[@Andy-From-England]

Ho wow what a machine I can't see that used on the uk roads lol

[@bigtractorpower]

I like watching UK farming in KZbin. I do not think the DB90 would work well in transport in the UK at 55 ft long and 15ft wide. It moves pretty well on our Kentucky roads with are about 20ft wide.

[@douglassellers7528]

Neighbor and I discussed 20" rows and thought they would be ideal for both corn and beans.

[@bigtractorpower]

They have worked very well for this farm. They harvest with ease in corn.

[@robo1210]

With corn it really depends on soil types. Flat black ground there’s not much difference in 20’s and 30’s with corn. On lighter soil and hilly ground 20’s out yield 30’s on our farm by 15-20bu every time.

[@FISHH00KS]

I didn't know there was so much money in corn. Imagine over $1,000,000 just to plant corn.

[@marianhoban9086]

CooL'

[@marianhoban9086]

🌽🐟🌽🌽🌽🌽🐟🐟🐟🌽🌽

[@user-gj2wn1eh1n]

Big more land no help one man Job.

[@michaelaudy6415]

Flex is impressive

[@bigtractorpower]

It really follows the contour.

[@luisnunes7933]

Humongous planter!

[@bigtractorpower]

Lots and lots of rows

[@luisnunes7933]

@@bigtractorpower Like twin rows, 20" rows is a clever way to have a more advantageous plant coverage of the soil.

[@cdjhyoung]

I'd sure like to see this field from a drone about mid season to see what the coverage looks like.

[@Blackwellll3066]

It's cool planter for sure but seems with 54 rows on 20" that the dual 50 bu boxes would be increased in size cuz it seems like they effect the 350-450 acres a day.

[@bigtractorpower]

John Deere uses the same CCS boxes on the 12 row to the 54 row. You would think some larger units would be used on the bigger models.

[@donfrisch6437]

for 2022 they they went from 50 to 65 bu. central tanks

[@wilsondeandrade4845]

✌️✌️✌️👏

[@generationll]

For the size of things has CHarlie ever thought about acquiring a X1100 combine?

[@bigtractorpower]

I do not not know I have not asked him. He has a 790 and several S780s.

[@robo1210]

For the price of the x9.1100 he could have two 790’s.

[@paulofrancisco565]

👏👏👍👍🚜🚜👌👌🇧🇷

[@jarrettfullerton2580]

Over a half a million dollars for something that most people used for less a month each year...crazy...but necessary

[@caseycouch1660]

He’s got it in one planter. We have more in 4-24 row planters, but we don’t have room for that in most fields. You only so many days that you can use them

[@herbhouston5378]

Just curious; What other equipment does he have and how many acres is farmed? Does he have a lot of bin space on the farm or does it go right to mill? In any event, I remember old 2 row check planters and 2 bottom turnin plows and 6 foot disks. In my young days I didn't know any farmers who had a lot of ground. They farmed their own and some on shares and some rented. I'm 78 and I remember those days fondly.

[@bigtractorpower]

This is a large family farm running thousands of acres. They have several planters. This is the largest but they run a few DB60 36 row 20 inch planters. You can see one of those planters in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXfYnZl9rtl6qqs They have a bin system and a fleet of IH Lonestsr semi trucks. They have an S790 combine and several S780s.

[@herbhouston5378]

@@bigtractorpower That's a big operation. Lot of cash flow.

[@stephenmarston9231]

I've planted a lot of corn with a 246 Deere planter and a JD 40. Yup a 2 bottom plow and a 7 foot disc.

[@jackiejordan2808]

Charlie said that was a small field , lol, looked pretty big to me, lol, but I guess a planter that size makes makes it seem small, thanks for the video Jason!!!

[@lawrencewilliamson3303]

How does he apply his fertilizer

[@MyHMMWVaddiction]

The corn planter all of One Lonely Farmers haters believes he needs to buy.

[@codybishop7373]

Are you in Hickman County? Carlise Hickman and Fulton are the only counties in ky on the Mississipp River.

[@bigtractorpower]

This was filmed in Fulton.

[@codybishop7373]

@@bigtractorpower I have some friends in carlise that would be more than welcoming m&g farms has lots of nice and big equipment including a 600 quad pulling double pans every summer and tripple g farms one of the biggest land owners in ky

[@codybishop7373]

@@bigtractorpower in carlise county

[@robertreznik9330]

The rig needs a Texas size field!

[@bigtractorpower]

It works well in big fields but will cover the smaller ones. The fields in this area are 50 to 100 acres. Lots of travel time. I have filmed a DB90 in a 900 acre field and with no travel and back and forth it can cover over 700 acres in a day.

[@johnseavey6622]

Must be 1.1 to 1.2 million in that setup

[@bigtractorpower]

Yes indeed between the tractor and the planter.

[@chewybuttdangler5202]

How many grease fittings are there?

[@bigtractorpower]

That is a good question. I will have to ask the next time I film one.

[@brianpappas5650]

7000 6 row 7400 tractor...but it's paid for

[@gregjames5070]

How do you know this one isn’t paid for?

[@brianpappas5650]

@@gregjames5070 I guess I really don't know..but a million dollar rig would be hard to cash flow..with my operation I've learned a few things ..debt will be the death of you

[@thomashanke6750]

Small field for something that big if you ask me.

[@rickiemckillip8124]

The Advantage of Today's Technology

[@bigtractorpower]

They can cover allot of ground in a hurry.

[@luisnunes7933]

Hello!

[@bigtractorpower]

Hi. Thank you for watching.

[@luisnunes7933]

@@bigtractorpower 😊👍

[@tctoytractors9325]

Interesting how John Deere went from the designation 9570RX to 9RX 570

[@bigtractorpower]

The RX tractors jumped 20 Hp. The 9570RX became the 9RX 590. It’s a little easier to say 9RX and the horse power rating. I just filmed a 9RX 640 and have a video on the 9RX 490 posted at kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWKXY59vrcyHnc0

[@robo1210]

The “9” is the series/frame size, 570 is the horsepower. Kinda copied new Holland on the model numbers.

[@emmanuelhubert8054]

👍💪✌️🤘👌💯🇨🇵😷😁

[@peteschiavoni]

That makes short work of planting.

[@devenportdirtworks1203]

This year Allis Chalmers 200 8 row 30 jd 7000 , next year Maybe use the AC 7580 to get some looks?H

[@bigtractorpower]

Very cool. A 200 and 7080 are cool tractors.

[@devenportdirtworks1203]

@@bigtractorpower 7580 4wheel drive

[@AR-qd7kz]

Kit🍾💎

[@danvanhoose6783]

So that's what dry ground looks like.

[@bigtractorpower]

Let’s say it was marginally dry. It’s been a wet spring here too.

[@jackwillie2729]

Silly that they can't have a electrical wipe blade ( or some device) on the top of combine corn header to remove corn stocks

[@bigtractorpower]

The best I have seen is a screen added to reduce the build up.

[@mikecoy7243]

Sorta makes my 4 row look small

[@chrisgrabert1879]

Wonder how he side dress’s that 20” corn or puts the nitrogen on the corn

[@bigtractorpower]

They apply NH3 ahead of planting in an angle.

[@gregdavis9207]

Two row

[@scottstewart6260]

I planted corn in my garden with a broadfork and a garden hoe… i dont have a big tractor lol

[@glennspreeman1634]

we expect 250-300 acres from a 12-30 inch planter. 400 acres from a planter 3 times as wide?

[@bigtractorpower]

The fields in this area are 50 to 100 acres. Lots of travel time. I have filmed a DB90 in a 900 acre field and with no travel and back and forth it can cover over 700 acres in a day.

[@GREENGRAZEFARMS]

What would Charlie charge per acre to plant for the public🤔

[@bigtractorpower]

Who is the public?

[@GREENGRAZEFARMS]

Other farmers, like if I lived close and needed 500 acres planted. How much would he charge per acre to plant it🤔

[@nickyoung6819]

What is his plant population per acre? And how many acres can he plant before he has to refill?

[@lynwessel2471]

Somewhere around 200 -250 acres.

[@nickyoung6819]

@@lynwessel2471 really? One planter full will plant that many acres? I’m a college student studying ag science. That seems high.

[@lynwessel2471]

@@nickyoung6819 32,000 plant population plants 1 80,000seed bag (unit) per 2.5 acres and the planter holds 100 units. 40k population is 200 acres.

[@ktmryder300]

Where is the charging station? I know that tractor is electric

[@waynedub1167]

Those tanks look completely undersized for that 90 footer.

[@bigtractorpower]

John Deere uses a 100 bu CCS tank on all its planters from 12 to 54 rows.

[@pauliewalnuts7088]

Who tf can afford this ridiculously big planter? Good god

[@IG10705]

Huge farms that has the money

[@TheGrumpyFarmer]

I’ve got fields I couldn’t turn that around in 🤦‍♂️