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<blockquote data-quote="Graham A.B Edwards" data-source="post: 2624606" data-attributes="member: 2904"><p>There is no doubt that for the Direct Drilling ,minimum soil-disturbance issue that the HP of the farm tractor & its weight are critical elements but the DRAWBAR-pull & draught ALSO has to be effectively measured..</p><p>In our own case we have ALREADY designed,developed & produced a range of 2 & 4 Wheel drive tractors in the HP band from 65-120 hp category.</p><p>We have also been developing an up to 200HP Trantor tractor in order that UK can,once again,lead the world in designing Farm tractors for CA-the no-till system.</p><p>Because we have to transport the crop from the combine to wherever,. we need to be LIGHT & FAST...not heavy and slow.</p><p></p><p>We have made provision for ADDING to the weight..........if that is necessary because of the soil-health,type & wetness.</p><p></p><p>Of course we do not NEED to add weight when fertiliser-spreading because we can spread the weight on the soil by using a trailed ,rather than mounted fertiliser-spreader.We need speed & lightweight in this kind of work and this goes for the tractor and the spreader. </p><p>So what else do we have to do??........not a lot.......and this is,of course the biggest reason why farmers should move to no-till/CA.</p><p>The combine may need to be on tracks if the situation you describe is soil-compaction-sensitive.</p><p>Why oh why have the bureaucrats decided to increase the weight on the soil by permitting the trailer-tractor combination to be increased ,instead of decreasing it??</p><p>We have been fortunate ,as an innovating company,to have been taught about CA-no-till by Theo Friedrich of FAO but more recently we have been able to appoint to our policy-making board Dr Vic Jordan [formerly of Long Ashton] who was the co-organiser of the first world conference on CA in Madrid & whose practical research papers are well-known to those interested in CA.We are also very fortunate to have invited George Randles [ex M.D. of Kverneland UK ltd. who has probably forgotten more than most of us will ever know about drilling when the Accord company were synonymous with excellence. Additionally,we have invited Chris Downes a long term user of TRANTOR tractors & an Agricultural contractor from Yorkshire to add practical weight to our board of directors.</p><p>We are not visiting the John Cherry Groundswell event ,due to other priorities,but we have produced an eleven-page PDF-Report covering the worldwide CA-market for those crops that lend themselves to CA but also which have" the most horrendous inefficiency" when they transport the biggest world crop volumes to the processing centre or storehouse.This covers the worldwide volume of crops produced & its figures are drawn from FAO ......a few years back.</p><p>In the event of anyone reading this that does NOT like long explanations of FARMING REALITY,& I already have managed to find one of those {!!}, these eleven pages are available [for criticism or otherwise] from <a href="mailto:aowen123@btinternet.com">aowen123@btinternet.com</a></p><p>As one of the few companies in the world that are addressing the need for CA in the world`s farming system we produced this document as our way of wishing to support what John Cherry & colleagues are doing.We are aware that the tractors & the Ag-Implements are too slow & too heavy for the CA work they are asked to do......but currently John Deere New Holland,and their design teams are simply not creating products that fit the bill of CA-farmers.We,as a tiny British company; cannot hope,on our own, to reduce the weight & increase the speed of farm equipment for CA.We can ,however ,persuade & explain and this subject does NOT.........when viewed in a Holistic way.........lend itself to quick or easy answers.UK is well behind Brazil in terms of teaching but is behind USA in terms of CA volume.We do have to play catch up for a few years but for our own success ,it is essential to be WORLDWIDE INNOVATION focused in the farm machinery sense.Thank you for providing the opportunity for this explanation GRAHAM</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Graham A.B Edwards, post: 2624606, member: 2904"] There is no doubt that for the Direct Drilling ,minimum soil-disturbance issue that the HP of the farm tractor & its weight are critical elements but the DRAWBAR-pull & draught ALSO has to be effectively measured.. In our own case we have ALREADY designed,developed & produced a range of 2 & 4 Wheel drive tractors in the HP band from 65-120 hp category. We have also been developing an up to 200HP Trantor tractor in order that UK can,once again,lead the world in designing Farm tractors for CA-the no-till system. Because we have to transport the crop from the combine to wherever,. we need to be LIGHT & FAST...not heavy and slow. We have made provision for ADDING to the weight..........if that is necessary because of the soil-health,type & wetness. Of course we do not NEED to add weight when fertiliser-spreading because we can spread the weight on the soil by using a trailed ,rather than mounted fertiliser-spreader.We need speed & lightweight in this kind of work and this goes for the tractor and the spreader. So what else do we have to do??........not a lot.......and this is,of course the biggest reason why farmers should move to no-till/CA. The combine may need to be on tracks if the situation you describe is soil-compaction-sensitive. Why oh why have the bureaucrats decided to increase the weight on the soil by permitting the trailer-tractor combination to be increased ,instead of decreasing it?? We have been fortunate ,as an innovating company,to have been taught about CA-no-till by Theo Friedrich of FAO but more recently we have been able to appoint to our policy-making board Dr Vic Jordan [formerly of Long Ashton] who was the co-organiser of the first world conference on CA in Madrid & whose practical research papers are well-known to those interested in CA.We are also very fortunate to have invited George Randles [ex M.D. of Kverneland UK ltd. who has probably forgotten more than most of us will ever know about drilling when the Accord company were synonymous with excellence. Additionally,we have invited Chris Downes a long term user of TRANTOR tractors & an Agricultural contractor from Yorkshire to add practical weight to our board of directors. We are not visiting the John Cherry Groundswell event ,due to other priorities,but we have produced an eleven-page PDF-Report covering the worldwide CA-market for those crops that lend themselves to CA but also which have" the most horrendous inefficiency" when they transport the biggest world crop volumes to the processing centre or storehouse.This covers the worldwide volume of crops produced & its figures are drawn from FAO ......a few years back. In the event of anyone reading this that does NOT like long explanations of FARMING REALITY,& I already have managed to find one of those {!!}, these eleven pages are available [for criticism or otherwise] from [email]aowen123@btinternet.com[/email] As one of the few companies in the world that are addressing the need for CA in the world`s farming system we produced this document as our way of wishing to support what John Cherry & colleagues are doing.We are aware that the tractors & the Ag-Implements are too slow & too heavy for the CA work they are asked to do......but currently John Deere New Holland,and their design teams are simply not creating products that fit the bill of CA-farmers.We,as a tiny British company; cannot hope,on our own, to reduce the weight & increase the speed of farm equipment for CA.We can ,however ,persuade & explain and this subject does NOT.........when viewed in a Holistic way.........lend itself to quick or easy answers.UK is well behind Brazil in terms of teaching but is behind USA in terms of CA volume.We do have to play catch up for a few years but for our own success ,it is essential to be WORLDWIDE INNOVATION focused in the farm machinery sense.Thank you for providing the opportunity for this explanation GRAHAM [/QUOTE]
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