Easy drill

[Matt L]

All depends on the spec of the drill too though. Most likely that will include fertiliser placement.

 

[ajd132]

Wow ! That’s quite a price home for the 750a then !

That is what I hve been told they are now, I don't know for sure. This stuff is ludicrously expensive.

 

[Clive]

All depends on the spec of the drill too though. Most likely that will include fertiliser placement.

You can’t spec that from jd - you have to diy fert on a 750a

 

[Matt L]

Exactly. It will cost more from the factory as is Fert ready. Can even come with micro granular kit for micro nutrients.

 

[warksfarmer]

£100k for a 6m drill. Wow that’s ridiculous.

 

[Matt L]

For a direct drill capable of seed and fertiliser, dual cropping, variable rate of fertiliser and seed, gps section control, 710 floatation tyres and air brakes. Price a cross slot and see what it comes out as. Or ask for a 750a that can do all of that straight from the factory.

 

[Badshot]

For a direct drill capable of seed and fertiliser, dual cropping, variable rate of fertiliser and seed, gps section control, 710 floatation tyres and air brakes. Price a cross slot and see what it comes out as. Or ask for a 750a that can do all of that straight from the factory.

A 750a can do seed and fert, and dual cropping straight from factory?
Really?

 

[Matt L]

No it can’t. That was my point. The Horsch at nearly 100k can

 

[ajd132]

For a direct drill capable of seed and fertiliser, dual cropping, variable rate of fertiliser and seed, gps section control, 710 floatation tyres and air brakes. Price a cross slot and see what it comes out as. Or ask for a 750a that can do all of that straight from the factory.

It's ludicrous whatever the make of the drill

 

[martian]

It's the blasted Leader grants that tip these prices over the top, really, really annoying. Subsidies bugger everything up

 

[Matt L]

Couldn’t agree more Martian. Yes it is a substantial amount of investment but for a machine that is responsible for planting the income source of the farm over a number of years.

 

[Andrew K]

Does the Leader grant save much?

 

[Clive]

It's the blasted Leader grants that tip these prices over the top, really, really annoying. Subsidies bugger everything up

100% correct I think - this is why grants don't work or help farmers at all

 

[Clive]

Does the Leader grant save much?

depends what area of the country etc but in some case it can be up to 40%I believe

its not consistent however so has created inequality between areas and inflated prices

 

[Andrew K]

depends what area of the country etc but in some case it can be up to 40%I believe

its not consistent however so has created inequality between areas and inflated prices

This is similar for Catchment Sensitive grants.In our area people could get up to 75% grant off a pneumatic spreader that was purchased for supposed slug control reasons, but virtually all of them are used for Avadex granules in reality as the spreaders are then rather cheap.If you are out of the catchment, you miss out! Even if you actually do use it for slug control.

 

[fred.950]

£100k for a 6m drill. Wow that’s ridiculous.

£130k for a 8m Avatar. That’s a Quote from a couple of weeks ago!

 

[juke]

It's the blasted Leader grants that tip these prices over the top, really, really annoying. Subsidies bugger everything up

We can't qualify for the leader grants as we are out of catchment area yet go 10 mile up the road and people are getting these grants for all sorts including no till drills . not sure this is a fair way for these grants to be issued, should be the whole country not just certain parts of a county.

 

[Rihards]

£130k for a 8m Avatar. That’s a Quote from a couple of weeks ago!

One māte recently ordered 12m avatar for 130 eiro for late june delivery.

 

[fred.950]

One māte recently ordered 12m avatar for 130 eiro for late june delivery.

That seems much better value

 

[cd4891]

We have a Sumo-Moore Versadrill, which is similar (Easy Drill was designed with Moore and based on the Unidrill). From what I see on here the Weaving is a better, more modern design that offers better seed placement and slot closure. Ours always leaves some seed on top and doesn't always close the slots on clay if it's too dry or wet. However despite this it grows good crops and will drill into just about anything, hard ground or lots of trash isn't a problem. It's also heavy, on light or sandy land the press wheels ridge the soil up and create more disturbance, although this doesn't seem to result in any more weeds

We have a Sumo Versadrill, new to us last year, and we're having issues with it blocking between the coulters and the rear press wheels. The depth bar is on the 3rd notch from the front, so fairly deep, (although the shine is about 2 inches on the disc). We moved the coulters down to about 10mm from the bottom of the disc and this put the seed in at the correct depth, but it seems to pull up damp soil and residue, almost like its cultivating. We're trying to zero till spring wheat directly into firm soil with a cover crop residue that was zero tilled that is well dead. We replaced some coulters in the winter and renewed scrapers and bearings here and there... any ideas what to do? tia