VIDEO: Bourgault launches ‘two-for-one’ seed meter

New XP Duo Seed Meter supplies singulation to two row units from a single meter

Published: March 26, 2024

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Last month at the National Farm Machinery Show, Bourgault Industries introduced its latest offering to the seeding and planting market: the XP Duo Meter. The latest development from the Saskatchewan-based ag equipment brand uses one meter housing to control seed to two individual rows (though operators can deliver to just one row if they choose).

Bourgault says the new design reduces complexity and cost by essentially cutting the number of meters and all their related attachments needed to operate them in half. 

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“What makes this really neat is that this wasn’t just done for one crop,” says Colin Rush, North American Sales and Marketing Leader for Bourgault. “We did a lot of work with soybeans, canola, sunflowers … this is actually a quad plate where we can do essentially four rows of soybeans where two go down one row and two go down the other row.”

The XP Duo Meter units are available for Bourgault’s 3820 coulter drill platforms and 30 to 40-foot frame-mounted seeding systems and can be ordered now for the spring 2025 planting season.

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Greg Berg

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Greg Berg was born and raised in the potash capital of the world of Esterhazy, Saskatchewan. Greg helped out on the family homestead farm near Stockholm, Sask., for a number of years in his youth. Greg graduated from the Creative Communications program at Red River College in 2011 and joined Glacier FarmMedia in 2014. He specializes in video production and is a songwriter in his spare time.

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