Talk:Seed drill

History Channel
"Travel to China to explore the roots of modern agricultural genius, where we will learn why these inventions were developed and how they have contributed to society today. Host Michael Guillen shows how the ancient Chinese invented advanced farming technology. He explains how the early planting tools: the hoe, the wheelbarrow and the cast iron guan plow revolutionized agriculture. We see a model of the Chinese seed drill which multiplied planting efficiency by a factor of ten and visit the Dujiangyan Irrigation Project which was engineered to control floods and irrigate farmland 22 centuries ago."

The Seed Drill was invented in China. ????

The seed drill was originally invented in ancient China. http://www.history.com/shows.do?episodeId=193987&action=detail Intranetusa (talk) 01:38, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
 * History Channel, Where Did It Come From? "Episode: Ancient China: Agriculture" He [Host Michael Guillen] explains how the early planting tools: the hoe, the wheelbarrow and the cast iron guan plow revolutionized agriculture. We see a model of the Chinese seed drill which multiplied planting efficiency by a factor of ten.


 * Seed drill was NOT invented in around the 1700s. It was invented almost a thousand years earlier in ancient China.

$$Insert formula here$$Maybe "Seeder" as a Torrent-related definition may be separated.


 * I agree, there should be a disambiguation page for 'Seeder'. --Yuser31415 21:39, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

The Seed drill eats feet? What is this all about? Kwizatch 07:08, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

The phrase that the seed drill ate feet should have clarification or citation. Alternatively it should be removed. Ralraz 20:34, 9 November 2006 (UTC) Ralraz

Gasoline tractor
Perhaps I'm not the best resource on this, but doesn't most farm machinery run on diesel?--Joel 05:37, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
 * On modern farms, generally 95% to 100% of all internal combustion engines used in machinery is diesel powered, however on some farms 50 - 60% are still gas-powered. ChristianH158 19:18, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Grammar
In Uses, there are plenty of grammatical errors, especially in the second-to-last paragraph. Here's a sample of how it is now, with what I can see emphasized:

″You'd set the drill for the size of seed you were using. Then they'd put the grain in the hopper on top and then follow along behind it while the seed drill spaced and planted the seed. This system is still used today but it has been modified and updated so a farmer can plant many rows of seed at the same time″

Change of point of view, punctuation, and probably more. I don't have time to fix it all now, but I'll add this to my watchlist. JMtB03 (talk) 22:54, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Incoherency

The last two paragraphs, which discuss weed control, of the entry read like a mish-mash of sentences from several sources. Someone who knows the subject should rewrite them from scratch.Saintonge235 (talk) 05:56, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

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Merge with or nest under Planter (farm implement) article
Merge or nest under the planter article? Both articles try to go over the history of planting seed for broadacre cropping. Why is it duplicated? A seed drill is a specific approach to planting seed so could still be its own separate article but should delegate describing the history of boradacre seed planting to the planter article. Donama (talk) 01:47, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Agreed to merge idea, but Seed drill is more comprehensive than the Planter (farm implement) article. If anything, Planter should merge into Seed drill. Platonk (talk) 15:17, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Would seriously request don't merge. It is really annoying trying to find information about a specific implement in a large general article that's mostly about something both irrelevant and unfamiliar. FloweringOctopus (talk) 12:32, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

Attribution
Text and references copied from Seed-counting machine to Seed drill, See former article's history for a list of contributors. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 12:41, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

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