Drills on demo…

Written by cpm from CPM Magazine

Download PDF With increasing numbers of its customers reducing cultivations and even moving fully to direct drilling, Hutchinsons held a March drill demo day in East Yorkshire for multiple manufacturers to show what their machines could do in different cover crop residues. CPM was there. With a damp or wet soil surface, some surface movement is good, to get air into the profile. By Martin Rickatson There’s nothing like a wet demo day to draw the crowds. While there might be land work to do, it will be too damp to do it, and so arable folk will generally be forced to choose between a dull day in the office, sometime in the workshop – or donning the waterproofs to see just how well kit can cope in sodden soils. To be fair, it wasn’t raining on the day of Hutchinsons’ East Yorkshire direct drill demonstration during early March, but it had rained plenty the day before – more than enough to make most fieldwork impossible. On the light land of the chosen demo site, though, it was still possible to put drills on the field and in the ground, and so it was that the demo went ahead. While the…
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