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It was 42+years ago that Rolf Derpsch started to explain that FARMING has to change from ploughing ro CA-No-,Tillage at all. It was 42+ years ago that Frank Lessiter established his no-till newsletter in USA & USA now has 35.6 million hectares under the no-till farming system of CA. During these...

Dear Jim. I do not read Arable Farmer,largely because FARMERS weekly spends more time and space on BLACK GRASS & fails to report the experience of Tony Reynolds in Landwards.......................Brian Sims articles.......which guide readers to solving the problem of Black Grass whereas the FW...

I do think your view about the Unimog is interesting as this was the forerunner to the MB Trac which was much slower & more AGRICULTURAL whereas the Trantor has always had a very important hitch-point under the SEE-ABLE [from the driving position.....not like the "long way back" hitch of the...

Dear Hartwig.....our approach to design is to direct our attention to ALL of the WORK TASKS in Ca-No-Till.......not JUST drilling........................we think there are always five tasks & in some soil conditions & for certain vegetables ....sometimes two more. Let us try to be holistic in...

Thank you for your thoughts Graham

Dear Shutesy,You may have seen the way the Chinese behave at the Various exhibition & show sites.They photograph each of those innovations they wish to copy.Copying is,however not only a Chinese disease as lots of other countries also try to learn from what they see.If we were thinking of going...

Banjo,......I do agree that the Trantor looks dated & it is designed to carry six people and the driver in comfort.Why......because in overseas countries teams of workers are very important in Palm-oil,sugar-cane & some fruits .......Additionally , we have always considered that to reach the...

weight.my view is that a 200-hp tractor needs to be about 6 tonnes but the seat needs to be 95% lighter.Suspernding seats is crackers.I have a modern tractor seat from MF Beauvais at home & i am unable to lift it..........in 1975 i could lift at least 20 tractor seats.The whole unsuspended...

I do agree that the Groundswell event is very important and John Cherry is the kind of man that ,I am sure will present the subject very well indeed .I had the pleasure of seeing some of his WORMS when I visited him to re-assess the paper I presented at the ECAF-Brissels conference..I do wish...

Jim. It is not the Uk that buys more than 1.5 million tractors each year and operates 32-million tractors every day.We have sold our tractors in to 15 different countries so as to learn about world farming.UK sells less than 12,000 tractors per year and,in our case,we do have customers in UK...

There is no doubt that for the Direct Drilling ,minimum soil-disturbance issue that the HP of the farm tractor & its weight are critical elements but the DRAWBAR-pull & draught ALSO has to be effectively measured.. In our own case we have ALREADY designed,developed & produced a range of 2 & 4...

Very pleased to find that,despite their length & reasonable explanations you find them informative........The subjects relate to a revolution in the farming world .....especially in UK.......but also in EC where ECAF are supporting FAO in the move away from the ploughing system.....Did you read...

Dear Martian In September 1984 [the 26th] I stepped out of a Trantor tractor in to the RANGE-Rover Of Sir Anthony Bamford as he got in to our Series two Mark one with a Leyland 4-98 Turbo engine.Stuart & myself followed behind in ANTHONY`s [not then a knight of the garter] Range Rover. This was...

Firstly,I am against ,in principle,the Weight of a trailer that is 14Tonnes.....I think you mean a 4-tonne trailer with air brakes to truck standards & containing springs [leaf] and carrying a load of ten tonnes.We have been doing this for 18 years at the Holbeach-coop now TESCO where 14 farms...

The CA-Conservation Agriculture {CA} system is a holistic system and farmers need to know what is INCLUDED & what is EXCLUDED.Firstly ,there is the tractor-trailer combination [it must be fast & light if soil-compaction and productivity & fuel-consumption are important on the farm in...