Corey Hillebo

Not the, I don't know, we don't put a third of our fertilizer on compared to what we used to.

I do think you can lean on it a little bit, like in tight margins.

Like, okay, yeah, we're putting it closer to where it needs to be.

Right.

You don't have to, but, yes, it's strongly advised.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Sometimes, shoot, people used to do it just by driving.

It got flat and square enough.

But there is, it'll teach you real quick if there's any planter drift.

Like, you don't have to get off on much of a slope to go, oh, that thing's off eight inches.

It's kind of like a boat.

Like, it'll kind of get on plane.

But then if you get on a side hill, you can feel it kind of hop out.

Yep.

And what will make you a believer in hydraulic downforce is when you see the map of, like, because we used to field cultivate at an angle and rip at a different angle, and you could see every tire track, like, in that planter unit trying to adjust for it.

And then you zoom out and look at the whole map, and you're like, oh, that was the way the field cultivator went.

Oh, that was the way the ripper went.

Oh, there's the grain cart track path from last year.

Yeah.