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Native Grass Seeder Attachment – (Optional)
The Native Grass Seeder (NGS) is designed to plant large fluffy seeds that generally would not flow through a
conventional seed meter or standard size seed tube. It has aggressive agitators in the hopper that keep the
seed from bridging up and feed it into the saw-toothed picker wheels. The picker wheels act as the seed meter;
they grab the seed and feed it into the oversized seed tube for delivery to the opener.
Calculating How Much to Plant
The seeds planted with a NGS generally have highly varying amounts of trash or inert material mixed in with
the actual seed because it is very hard seed to clean. The amount of seed that will actually germinate will also
differ. Recommended planted rates are usually based on the amount of Pure Live Seed (PLS) to be planted.
To get the right amount of PLS seed planted, you will have to plant extra to compensate for the inert material
and dead seed that will not germinate. Use the following formula to calculate your Actual Seed Rate. (Inert
Material % and Germination % should be available from your seed supplier).
Actual Seeding Rate (lbs./acre) = Desired Rate of PLS______________
(1-% Inert Material) x (% Germination)
Note: Percentages should be in decimal form.
Example: Plant a desired seed rate of 10lbs/ac of Pure Live Seed. The seed has 40% inert material and a
75% germination rate. What actual seeding rate should be planted?
Actual Seeding Rate = 10 lbs./ac_____ = 22.2 lbs./ac
(1 - .40) x (.75)
Seed Rate Adjustment
The picker wheels do not have adjustable flutes, like the standard seed meters, that change the seed rate. The
only way to change the seed rate of the NGS is to change the speed of the picker wheels. This is done on the
Remlinger drill with a variety of sprocket combinations between the drill’s Jack Shaft and the Meter shaft that
the picker wheels are on. There are 10 different sprocket combinations for the NGS as seen on the following
chart. Each sprocket combination also has a chain size listed for it. The drill is shipped in Setting #7, which
has a 33-tooth sprocket on the Jack Shaft, a 60-tooth sprocket on the Meter Shaft, and uses a 79, 9, 7, & 13
link lengths of chain and 4 connector links. To change to Setting # 6, you would put the 15-tooth sprocket on
the Jack Shaft and the 33-tooth sprocket on the Meter Shaft, and remove the 7 and 13 link chain lengths and
connectors from the drive chain.
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