The method for planting potatoes at high speed includes the steps ofproviding a press wheel behind the seed drop chute; opening a furrow in asoil; dropping potato seed pieces at spaced intervals in the furrow such thateach seed piece or a portion thereof intersects a forward shadow of thepress wheel, and catching and decelerating each seed piece against the soilin the furrow thereby reducing set roll in each seed piece. In an alternateembodiment a pair of spaced-apart press wheels are used. These alternatepress wheels are mounted astride the furrow in a positive-camber alignmentfor moving the soil of the furrow against the seed piece.
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