Patent ID: 7591226

Claim:
A method for planting rows of seeds in an agricultural field in a plurality of swaths including unseeded rows disposed at asymmetrical locations within the swaths which will comprise tramlines for receiving wheels of a vehicle to be subsequently driven through the field, comprising the steps of: (a) planting the seeds in the rows in the field in a parallel manner using a planting machine having a plurality of seed dispensers at spaced locations along a width of the planting machine; (b) automatically blocking predetermined ones of the dispensers on the planting machine at the asymmetrical locations for forming the unseeded rows, the predetermined dispensers being selected as a function of the width of the planting machine, a width of the vehicle, and the width between the wheels of the vehicle, such that predetermined adjacent ones of the unseeded rows will be spaced a distance apart about equal to the width between the wheels of the vehicle; and (c) varying the ones of the blocked dispensers along the width of the planting machine during planting of successive swaths of the field.