Will a Grain Drill work for most seed?

I don’t plant much corn or beans. I plant turnips, sugar beets, winter wheat, sunflowers, buckwheat, rutabaga and winter peas. The biggest seed is probably the sunflower.

Question: If I buy a Grain Drill such as a JD Van Brundt with a grass box and oats box, will that handle all the seeds listed above?

I normally broadcast and drag them in but looking for a way to conserve wasted seed by doing that and get them in the ground for better germination.

I have about 1K to spend so the more expensive plotmaster types aren’t in the budget.

What do you think? Thanks in advance !

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I don’t plant much corn or beans. I plant turnips, sugar beets, winter wheat, sunflowers, buckwheat, rutabaga and winter peas. The biggest seed is probably the sunflower.

Question: If I buy a Grain Drill such as a JD Van Brundt with a grass box and oats box, will that handle all the seeds listed above?

I normally broadcast and drag them in but looking for a way to conserve wasted seed by doing that and get them in the ground for better germination.

I have about 1K to spend so the more expensive plotmaster types aren’t in the budget.

What do you think? Thanks in advance !

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The drill will work great when doing cereal grains such as winter wheat, oats, and buckwheat. for soybeans you can plug several seed openings to achieve a 12-18″ row spacing, as far as the small seeds,(turnips rutabagas etc) the grass box will work fine. these tubes only drop the seed on top of the ground. there are usually some short chains that drag behind the drill to help with seed to soil contact on the small seeds.

I quit using my drill a couple of years ago and now just lightly disc the seeds into the ground with great results. (Corn still gets planted with a corn planter) with the small seed I broadcast and then cultipack or pack with an atv or tractor. the soybeans in-between the corn rows were broadcast and lightly disced in before I planted the corn. the Brassicas were broadcast and then packed with the atv tires.

That is exactly what I was expecting…Thanks a bunch for confirming my hunch! Good Info.
Don’t suppose you still have that drill and want to sell it?
I’ve been trying to find a narrow one around 5 or 6 foot. Found 1 but gone before I could get to it. Know where I could find one this size?

Thanks for all your help Bob!!