SI Manufacturing, in Spencerville, Ohio, has also come up with a modification kit for press wheels on Deere drills that converts the single, vertical wheel to a V-shaped, 2-wheeled assembly. A special bracket mounts in place of the single-wheeled bracket and the old press wheel, along with a new one purchased from Deere, is mounted on it in the same V-shaped configuration used on Max Emerge planters.

"The V-shape increases the effectiveness of the press wheels in increasing soil-to-seed contact but doesn't compact the soil above the seed like a single wheel," says SI Manufacturing representative Ron McCleery, noting that the press wheel assembly also has less adverse effect on seed depth than a single wheel that presses directly down on the seed.