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Download PDF The thriving soils of a Worcestershire estate are carefully managed to maximise carbon capture while there’s a sharing culture that resonates the benefits. CPM visits to understand the quest that’s driven the improvements. Mother Nature has a marvellous way of feeding our crops that we’re only just beginning to appreciate. By Tom Allen-Stevens There’s an addition to Jake Freestone’s Cross Slot drill that sits among the main farm buildings of Overbury Enterprises in Worcestershire. On the John Deere 8370R that pulls the drill sits a TT front-mounted tank. “We’re putting biology directly in with the seed,” explains Jake. “Direct-drilled crops always benefit from a little starter nutrition, but we’re moving away from DAP and TSP that can get locked up in our calcareous soils.” Jake points to a manifold on the front of the drill that distributes the mixture, taken from the front tank through a peristaltic pump. This is needed to pass the brew of phosphites, microbes and other carefully selected ingredients, no matter how “gloopy” the resulting mixture, down narrow tubes into the individual slots created by the cross-shaped coulters. “We’ve worked hard to develop the soil biology for many years, and previously sprayed a brew…
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