John Deere Seeding Division, “we’ve narrowed the transport width to 12 feet, which is 3 feet less than our older model 16-row planters. We’ve also increased ground clearance to 22 inches.

“We really try to avoid the term of high speed and instead look at it as high performance,” says Paul Richardel, product manager for planters at John Deere. David Brennan, the North America ...