Direct/Strip-till drilling photo gallery

sjt01

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Mixed Farmer
Location
North Norfolk
First outing for new toy. Drilling cover crop mix into chopped linseed straw. Destined for Sp. Barley next year.
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Should be a video but doesn't seem to work.
Its like the old joke.........
An Englishman, an iphone, and Windows 7 trying to share video.
Snap! We were establishing the MGA cover crop trials Monday & yesterday with our new GD on a Caddy. Thunderstorms on Monday when the video was taken made it rather wetter than we would like, but it went well yesterday. Calibrating for 12 different mixes meant we soon got the hang of calibration
 

matthewizod

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Arable Farmer
Location
Chipping norton
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Our first attempt at direct drilling osr in to spring barley stubble, trash caused a few issues but overall pleased with the results after it had been rolled.
 

Brisel

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
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Kings vetch/buckwheat/linseed/berseem clover/phacelia mix broadcast into the standing crop of wheat in late July by a pneumatic fertilser spreader. Crop cut and straw chopped a week later.

Here's what it looks like now, complete with terriers for scale.
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Unfortunately when the gap between seed broadcasting and combining is wider the establishment rate is much lower. This was cut 3 weeks later.
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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

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