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<blockquote data-quote="Jim Bullock" data-source="post: 2623910" data-attributes="member: 97"><p>We spoke to a lot of "Direct-Drillers" at Cereals who were interested in our low disturbance soil loosener, as they have come across exactly the same problems as we have with D-D in so much as in UK we have a maritime climate which means we can often get more water deposited upon us than the soil, crops and cover crops can absorb. On certain less free draining soil types you have to on occasion give nature a bit of a helping hand and lossen it. I have heard all the arguments for not going in with some form of tillage tool but life is just too short to wait for nature to sort itself out. (added to which my Bank Manager would not be very impressed if I told him to wait for nature to repay the O/D)</p><p>My point is the Trantor No-Till Tractor will not sell in great numbers in the UK if it cannot perform some draft operations. I think you perhaps ought to be looking at developing a self propelled direct-drill. I have seen one in Switzerland built by a contractor and a prototype in Brazil by Semeato. We have SP combines, sprayers so why not a drill as we will be covering much of our land 2-3 times a year if we are going to plant cash and cover crops.</p><p>We will be at Groundswell so might be able to continue the discussion there....Cereals was really busy for us..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jim Bullock, post: 2623910, member: 97"] We spoke to a lot of "Direct-Drillers" at Cereals who were interested in our low disturbance soil loosener, as they have come across exactly the same problems as we have with D-D in so much as in UK we have a maritime climate which means we can often get more water deposited upon us than the soil, crops and cover crops can absorb. On certain less free draining soil types you have to on occasion give nature a bit of a helping hand and lossen it. I have heard all the arguments for not going in with some form of tillage tool but life is just too short to wait for nature to sort itself out. (added to which my Bank Manager would not be very impressed if I told him to wait for nature to repay the O/D) My point is the Trantor No-Till Tractor will not sell in great numbers in the UK if it cannot perform some draft operations. I think you perhaps ought to be looking at developing a self propelled direct-drill. I have seen one in Switzerland built by a contractor and a prototype in Brazil by Semeato. We have SP combines, sprayers so why not a drill as we will be covering much of our land 2-3 times a year if we are going to plant cash and cover crops. We will be at Groundswell so might be able to continue the discussion there....Cereals was really busy for us.. [/QUOTE]
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