The Biggest Planters Ever Built Explained

The John Deere DB120 plants 48 rows across 120 feet of toolbar in a single pass — the largest planter ever put into production. And the hard part isn't pulling it. It's fitting it down a road. These are the nine biggest planters and air seeders ever built — the widest, the highest-capacity, the fastest, and the one from 1974 that taught all the others how to place a seed. 0:00 John Deere DB120 — widest planter (120 ft, 48 rows) 1:17 Bourgault 71300 — largest air-seeder cart (1,300 bu) 2:23 Väderstad Tempo — the world-record planter (502 ha/24h) 3:29 Amazone Citan 15001 — largest pneumatic seed drill (15 m) 4:38 Väderstad Seed Hawk 84 — widest air drill (84 ft) 5:33 Horsch Maestro — the central-fill giant 6:29 Kinze 4900 — the bulk-fill pioneer's flagship 7:29 Case IH Early Riser 2150 — the front-fold flagship 8:32 John Deere 7000 — the 1974 planter everything here descends from The planter is where every crop year actually begins — and the race to plant more acres faster has pushed these machines to sizes most people never see. From a 120-foot Midwestern monster to a Canadian air cart that hauls 1,300 bushels at a time, every giant here traces back to the John Deere 7000, the machine that first taught a planter how to put every seed at the same depth. 🔔 Subscribe for more big-machine breakdowns:    / @farmerdude20   #Planter #JohnDeere #DB120 #Bourgault #Vaderstad #Kinze #Horsch #CaseIH #Farming #FarmMachinery #BigMachines #Planting #AirSeeder #FarmerDude