YELROM
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Well blow me I've just realised Clive hasn't responded!?
Hell fire and damn nation!
He's to busy turning his points
Well blow me I've just realised Clive hasn't responded!?
Hell fire and damn nation!
well they should do unless they are hypocrites because its arable farming that does the damage to the soil full stop.unless you include building sites etc.....That's from Cotton growing to maize and all thats in between.
Well managed PP doesnt .
I fear you are doing Dr Alistair Leake an enormous injustice!Theres loads of flaws with the nitrous oxide debate.
Can we purport that if Loddington had successfully direct drilled a crop then they would magically have more nox emissions than if they left it stubble all winter?
I fear you are doing Dr Alistair Leake an enormous injustice!
He will show you that at Loddington, they have successfully grown OSR crop by using DD, which IIRC is something you have struggled with.
He can show good evidence that CSFB is vastly reduced using DD and has a good explanation and reason as to why this is the case.
I’m fairly certain that we can purport that anything done at Loddington is pretty good science and well researched.
Indeed, it is people like Dr Alister Leake that we rely on to come up with proper scientific unbiased research and fact, rather than what are mostly biased opinions.
Quite frankly, when it comes to opinions, I often wonder how the human race has survived this long!
Especially when it comes to feeding ourselves.
Around here the plough and combi drilled fields look by far the best.I only have to look at the neighbours recently ploughed and combi drilled wheat to remind me how greatfull i am that i have not ploughed anything
You can't be that far from us, where those that have ploughed and combied that I have spoken to, admit that about half of what has gone in won't make a crop, have incurred costs, will be very slow to dry out to replant in spring and will take a lot of repairing over a number of years starting this autumn.Around here the plough and combi drilled fields look by far the best.
I fear you are doing Dr Alistair Leake an enormous injustice!
He will show you that at Loddington, they have successfully grown OSR crop by using DD, which IIRC is something you have struggled with.
He can show good evidence that CSFB is vastly reduced using DD and has a good explanation and reason as to why this is the case.
I’m fairly certain that we can purport that anything done at Loddington is pretty good science and well researched.
Indeed, it is people like Dr Alister Leake that we rely on to come up with proper scientific unbiased research and fact, rather than what are mostly biased opinions.
Quite frankly, when it comes to opinions, I often wonder how the human race has survived this long!
Especially when it comes to feeding ourselves.
Around here the plough and combi drilled fields look by far the best.
We know for a fact ploughed soils lose carbon and emit co2 though - that is v conclusive.
Just reread the article in FW. Mr Leake says "opting for less intensive cultivations like zero till will lead up to a build of carbon in the surface layer, however as you go down the soil profile the organic matter content is lower. With a plough based system you see the opposite as it buries organic matter 20cm".
Are they doing long term no till trials at this place or not?
Exactly good post.With regards the No-til -v- ploughing situation, we are arguing over which is our favourite child.
And seriously heading towards an identical war as to the organic -v- conventional debacle!
If you can successfully do No-til, fantastic and the best of luck to you.
If you find that ploughing suits you and your farm better, then carry on.
But for goodness sake lets not turn it into a situation where some are so intrenched by whichever system they choose that they over influence others outside farming to legislate against one form in favour of the other!
How dare you?