Triton direct seed drill

Without doubt my best BG control has come from late date drilling but as you say having a drill that will go in too wet conditions is a dangerous thing. My late drilled WW has had its challenges due to a little slot smeering and being DD lack of mineralisation. I hope that I havnt caused too much soil structure damage by drilling late and a bit wet, I'm sure there will be some sort of soil condition compromise to this years BG control. I don't think the Triton would be for me with the amount of disturbance it causes but I'm interested in the engineering behind it and the quality of the crop it helps grow in what has been a truly awful wet autumn and winter. I also state fair play to the farmer/engineer who has come up with the new (I think) concept, who knows where this sort of step change could lead? I will follow with interest and hope to see it working 1st hand at Groundswell.
 

R J H

Member
It is knowing your land and drill, we have to delay drill for black grass but how long depends on the field, I have drilled jan and feb and had good crop's. have drilled oct and had poor crop.knowing is key to good crops 'no set rules.knowing what wheat will grow in is key.
 

tr250

Member
Location
Northants
I have a drill which will go in wet conditions long after anything else would have given up. What I have learnt is that just because it will go, doesn't mean that you should. Sometimes you can gamble that it will come dry after drilling and you get away with it, but mostly if you are in a wet period of weather, you will get rain after drilling as well, and you soon realise it was a waste of time.

Making a drill which is designed to go in wet conditions is barmy, in my opinion.
Your right there I was worried when I replaced a kv tine drill with weaving gd but have come to realise that the gd will go far longer than we should be on the field
 

herman

Member
Mixed Farmer
I called in to see the tritron drill after a visit to cereals, the drill was just as I'd seen on YouTube. The crops looked nice and clean to me despite the blackgrass problems that were explained in great details by simon , in his case it was the only answer to his problems.
As far as I am concerned we are definitely not in the same situation as his level of blackgrass and it's resistance to ag chems, but for some it might be an answer.
I sadly learned more in the short time I was in his company than I did having the pleasure of spending £24 at cereals and coming away feeling disappointed in what used to be one of the highlights of the year.

As they say don't knock it until you've tried it.
 

Chris F

Staff Member
Media
Location
Hammerwich
I called in to see the tritron drill after a visit to cereals, the drill was just as I'd seen on YouTube. The crops looked nice and clean to me despite the blackgrass problems that were explained in great details by simon , in his case it was the only answer to his problems.
As far as I am concerned we are definitely not in the same situation as his level of blackgrass and it's resistance to ag chems, but for some it might be an answer.
I sadly learned more in the short time I was in his company than I did having the pleasure of spending £24 at cereals and coming away feeling disappointed in what used to be one of the highlights of the year.

As they say don't knock it until you've tried it.

Sounds like we need to get a write up from him in the next issue of Direct Driller.
 

R J H

Member
my black grass is going that way'. it is why i am getting one trying to stay one step ahead of black grass. keeping one step ahead with chemicals is hard ? stacking chemicals is costly reducing the stack save money! hope to cut out two chemicals with drill, every two years need new stack to cut resistance, mixing and matching costs
 
my black grass is going that way'. it is why i am getting one trying to stay one step ahead of black grass. keeping one step ahead with chemicals is hard ? stacking chemicals is costly reducing the stack save money! hope to cut out two chemicals with drill, every two years need new stack to cut resistance, mixing and matching costs
An lot of farmers are getting to grips with their BG by going back to farming not trying more of the same. The drill may be all it says but if you ask me I won't want a wonder drill as the temptation is to keep on the treadmill of yesteryear. Soil care not mastery is what I try to achieve.
 

SimonD

Member
Location
Dorset
my black grass is going that way'. it is why i am getting one trying to stay one step ahead of black grass. keeping one step ahead with chemicals is hard ? stacking chemicals is costly reducing the stack save money! hope to cut out two chemicals with drill, every two years need new stack to cut resistance, mixing and matching costs

I just don’t see how this type of drill will reduce a BG problem given the disturbance of soil.
 

R J H

Member
I am now growing cover crops to improve my soil putting down all my straw for 9 year's still learning, am open to new methods to improve my soil disks don't work on my soil needs tine's
 

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