Your gauge wheels set seed depth. When they wear, drift out of adjustment or pack with mud, depth changes from seed to seed, and the plants that come up late yield less. You can check a row in about 10 minutes, and this fall or winter in the shop is the time to do it. Putting every seed at the depth you set is the gauge wheel's whole job, and worn wheels can't do it. What gauge wheels do on a row unit Two 16-inch gauge wheels ride on each side of the double-disc opener. The d

Uneven seed depth means late plants and lost yield. Here's how worn or plugged gauge wheels cause it and the 10-minute check to find it.

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