A paired row furrow opener comprising:
- a seed boot body extending along a longitudinal axis between a forward end and a rearward end aft of said forward end along said longitudinal axis and also extending along a vertical axis between a bottom side and a top side elevated from said bottom side along said vertical axis and also extending along a transverse axis between a right side and a left side spaced from one another along said transverse axis, wherein said longitudinal axis is perpendicular to said vertical axis and to said transverse axis and said vertical axis and said transverse axis are perpendicular to one another and wherein said longitudinal axis and said vertical axis intersect and are coplanar in first plane centered with respect to said seed boot body;
- a fertilizer passageway extending through said seed boot body between an outlet and an inlet elevated from said outlet along said vertical axis;
- a seed passageway extending through said seed boot body between an outlet and an inlet elevated from said outlet of said seed passageway along said vertical axis;
- at least one soil deflecting edge integral with said seed boot body;
- at least one row soil deflecting surface extending aft from said at least one soil deflecting edge along said longitudinal axis and facing upward with respect to said vertical axis;
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- wherein said at least one soil deflecting edge further comprises:
- a first soil deflecting edge extending substantially horizontally between a first end and a second end, said first end closer to said first plane than said second end, said second end aft of said first end along the longitudinal axis;
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- a second soil deflecting edge transverse to said first soil deflecting edge and extending substantially vertically between a first end and a second end, said first end of said second soil deflecting edge closer to said first soil deflecting edge than said second end of said second soil deflecting edge, said second end of said second soil deflecting edge elevated relative to said first end of said second soil deflecting edge along said vertical axis.