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[Manny]

I have to say Flintstones crops and work rates are very impressive but just to balance things out we have a neighbour who has been struggling to strip till 700 acres with a 3 M strip till drill albeit not a Claydon , ironically they have given the system up when they would of just had a perfect autumn for them to make the system work as it should .
But I will also add that most of neighbours ground is not quite as nice as Flintstones ,,,,,,
Tho on the flip side we have @Manny not many miles away who is in his 2nd year of strip till and his crops this winter look excellent tho to be fair he has some nice dirt

Thanks for your kind words about the crops but you know not all the land we farm is or should I say was nice dirt. Every field is still limited by there marle patches just like everywhere else in this part of Warwickshire. The biggest thing I've seen over the last few years is the less we do to the worst snotty bits of land the better they get. By cleaning ditches, clearing drains, coppicing hedges and moling where we could I'm down to a couple of wet areas left now which come to about an acre and a half in total which a couple of new drains should sort. Most of this extra work has been done in the time that I would of been sat in a tractor seat trying to break big hard or snotty lumps up after the plough!

 

[SilliamWhale]

Thanks for your kind words about the crops but you know not all the land we farm is or should I say was nice dirt. Every field is still limited by there marle patches just like everywhere else in this part of Warwickshire. The biggest thing I've seen over the last few years is the less we do to the worst snotty bits of land the better they get. By cleaning ditches, clearing drains, coppicing hedges and moling where we could I'm down to a couple of wet areas left now which come to about an acre and a half in total which a couple of new drains should sort. Most of this extra work has been done in the time that I would of been sat in a tractor seat trying to break big hard or snotty lumps up after the plough!

Natures way. Give it a chance and all soils will raise their fertility levels and improve structure over time