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If your planter is dropping seed at different depths across the toolbar, the problem is often not your monitor — it’s uneven gauge wheel wear, mud loading, or hardware failures that compound from row to row. Farmers near Ipswich running wide toolbars need to understand why row-to-row consistency breaks down and what to do about it before it costs them yield.

Every time you lift the planter at the end of a pass and drop it back down at the next entry, your gauge wheels have to re-establish depth from scratch. Farmers near Sioux Falls operating in variable spring soils often don’t realize how much planting depth drifts during those transitions — and how worn or mismatched gauge wheel components make it worse. Here’s how to tell if your setup is actually holding depth, and what to do about it.

Farmers near Mitchell who run both a row-crop planter and an air seeder often assume gauge wheel parts cross over between the two machines — but compatibility isn’t always as straightforward as it looks. Jung Enterprise breaks down what to actually check before planting season starts, so you’re not discovering a mismatch in the field when it costs you time and yield.

Inconsistent seeding depth is one of the leading causes of uneven emergence and yield loss in corn and soybeans — and most farmers near Huron don’t catch it until they’re walking fields post-emergence. This article breaks down how your gauge wheel actually controls depth, what causes it to float or skip, and what field-proven hardware changes make the difference between consistent stands and costly replants.

If your gauge wheel is riding beside the seed trench instead of firming the trench wall, your seed-to-soil contact is suffering before the seed even drops. Here’s how farmers near Watertown can tell the difference — and what to do about it.