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<blockquote data-quote="ajd132" data-source="post: 7562282" data-attributes="member: 4612"><p>I would say that being committed to zero till saves £100-£200/ha on operating over heads depending on the farm compared to gearing up for a no till/plough system. Not massive when wheat is £200/t but when I goes back down to £130 that can make a big difference. Cannot lose yield though. What it does do is mitigate risk/capital exposure against actors out of our control, like last years weather when everything around here was rubbish regardless of system.</p><p>On BG no till definitely helps but isn’t a silver bullet. It has allowed us to start drilling earlier again (we still have some BG in crops but not a great deal) which is going to be worth several hundreds of thousands this year. If I had min tilled and drilled early this year we would have terrible BG levels I’m sure, in fact I have a 6ha of early drilled min till and I had to use a Claydon hoe through it 3 times to try and get the levels down. </p><p>although saying all this there is an annoyingly bad patch of BG right outside my house!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ajd132, post: 7562282, member: 4612"] I would say that being committed to zero till saves £100-£200/ha on operating over heads depending on the farm compared to gearing up for a no till/plough system. Not massive when wheat is £200/t but when I goes back down to £130 that can make a big difference. Cannot lose yield though. What it does do is mitigate risk/capital exposure against actors out of our control, like last years weather when everything around here was rubbish regardless of system. On BG no till definitely helps but isn’t a silver bullet. It has allowed us to start drilling earlier again (we still have some BG in crops but not a great deal) which is going to be worth several hundreds of thousands this year. If I had min tilled and drilled early this year we would have terrible BG levels I’m sure, in fact I have a 6ha of early drilled min till and I had to use a Claydon hoe through it 3 times to try and get the levels down. although saying all this there is an annoyingly bad patch of BG right outside my house! [/QUOTE]
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