After taking my time over the 2021-22 winter comparing other NT drills to the First Product, I decided to purchase the 6' three point drill, in March, and Landon worked with me very quickly and in a timely manner. I was very fortunate to have many emails and phone calls back and forth with Landon about the purchase and it was literally the easiest purchase I have ever encountered. And the shipping was even easier!

Comparing First Product to its competitors, its no doubt built to last longer and simpler to use. At first its a little overwhelming looking at it, but after reading the brief but very informational manual, it took less than ten minutes to setup and calibrate. I was amazed at how well built this machine is and yet so simple it is to calibrate, change slides, and clean. It is also much less expensive than the most common competitors machines ( A neighbor down the road purchased the competitor and regrets not buying a First product after seeing mine, he also paid significantly more for the competitor).

There is no mention of corn being used in this drill, and part of my needs for this drill included drilling corn. I built some spacers so I would have 27" rows and I was blown away at how well my corn stands came out, throughout this horrendous drought we had in the 2022 year. Population is perfect, spacing is perfect and the corn looks great. After a lot of tweaking I even drilled sweet corn which turned out well!

I had one issue with the drill, after my compact John Deere 4044 overheated, blew a fuse on the drill, which in turn, locked up the actuator and blew that also. This all occurred on July 4th and so I reached out to the team. They immediately responded back to me ON JULY 4th! After thanking them for calling me on a holiday, they rushed in July 5th and sent the parts out to me, so I was back up and running before the weekend.

To put things in short:
I highly recommend this machine, and if anyone locally wants to see to compare, contact me as I would love to give First Products more business!

Thanks for this product and I hope to see this company flourish in the future!

I purchased the ND-96, 8ft. Multi-Drill from 1st Products in Spring of 2021. I recently finished planting my second season of food plots with the unit last month. With never having used a no till unit before, I had many questions for Landon before making such an expensive purchase. He was very knowledgeable of the unit as a whole & very patient with me as a new customer. We ended up going with this unit due to his knowledge of the machine, 1st Products history within the turf industry and lastly the attractive price point in comparison to other units on the market.

In my first season of use, I was able to plant 22+acres of wildlife spring plots, on 1 tank of diesel, with very good precision as far as seed calibration, but, due strictly to user error, the seed was planted a bit too deep, so only about ½ of my mix germinated with any vigor. Having botched the first seasons planting with my new bad ass farming tool, I really paid attention to depth on round 2.

This falls crops were planted 4 days AFTER a 1/2" rain & germinated in a weeks time with perfect little rows that are very nicely spaced. To add to the precision of this machine, my most recent planting was a 15 way mix that included multiple varieties of cereals, brassicas, clovers & beans all mixed together in the large seed box, with no noticeable change in the mixture of germinated product. Meaning there was no noticeable "settling" of the heavier seed within the seed box. The construction of the unit is very solid and attractive w/ no mechanical problems to speak of apart from the included adjustment wrench fell off within the first few passes due to a failed weld, but honestly we just keep it in the tractor with the rest of our tools.

After 2 seasons and 50+acres of wild life food plots in the ground, I would 100% purchase this product again & recommend anyone in the market to give them a hard look before going with another No-Till Planter. IF I could change any one thing about this machine, I do wish the row spacing was tighter, so that my fall food plots would have more ground cover during the hunting months of October-January. A couple of items/attachments that I would like to see in the future would be a roller crimper attachment as well as an in furrow liquid fertilization applicator for true one pass planting capabilities.