Niels
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- Netherlands/Suffolk
I can see where you are coming from but it does offer some advantages? Maybe CTF is not the proper term but surely if you run all your equipment down the same tracks that gives less compacting? Rather than run a 6m drill and a 10.5m combine run an 8m drill and 9m combine (header)?Have to disagree - CTF has no relevance to zero-till at all and i'm yet to met a proper zero-till farmer who does it or feels its needed, most would agree that cover crops are a big part of zero-till and i don't recall saying otherwise ?
why do you need to control traffic when you have a good undisturbed soil structure and you only need low hp tractors with weight no greater than 7.5t on wide tyres running at 6psi with timeliness that means you don't go on land that is in a condition prone to compaction ? CTF when zero-tilling is the last thing you want to do, I want to drill at an angle to last season crop residue for starters, I also don't want a 10m or 12m drill and the associated HP and weight that would bring putting you back on the cultivation merry go round
i kind of see the point in CTF in a min-till plough or even strip till situation maybe
by haevey harvest operations I mean combine and cart - unavoidable heavy operations where I do control traffic and run a fixed tramlines system as part of that
I can see the angle drilling being an issue yes. I have seen in Australia, and assume US as well, they alternate and drill in between previous years rows. Maybe you'd have to do that, as you would have rtk-gps anyway. I do like the idea of having a gutter underneath the chaff spreader and drop the chaff in the wheeling from the CTF system. Maybe you could even sow grass in the tracks and turn nozzles off on the sprayer to prevent killing it off. I agree with your width. Maybe 8m would be most ideal?