I used to plant 25 acres with a 28 hp jd and five ft disk and bush hog. Drag it with tires tied together or a cedar tree. Plots turned out great most of the time. I now plant 40 acres with a 65 hp tractor and a 7’ woods seeder on three pt hitch. I would not want any wheels on a planter in irregular shaped plots. Big open fields are fine. It is less of a planter than a drill but much more capable than a disk and spreader. I plant cereal grains like wheat out of the large seed box at the same time as small seeds like clover out of the small seed box. I plant into existing clover by setting the disk gang where it only disturbs about half the ground. Seems to invigorate the clover. It will row plant corn but you have to plug some holes - not the best for that. It will not do well heading off across and established little bluestem field and planting anything into it. It does well planting in most existing crops or sprayed and dead vegetation.

If not planting a lot of acres, I have been very successful with throw n mow. For fall planting where the existing cover is probably going to die anyway, spread the seed in existing vegetation, and mow the vegetation. The mowed vegetation acts as mulch. Easy, cheap.

But with all plantings - rain or lack there of - can make you a hero or a zero

Greenscape 750 drill. 40Hp Deere. Does great.