Problem is, I'd love to go DD, or min till, but can't afford the failures that I saw on land that had to be redrilled around here. At least my plough based, combi drill system, on my limited acreage and with a range of crops , often ploughing in muck, works year on year.
I have bought a shallow stubble cultivator to play around with on some fields this year.
I sometimes detect a bit of smugness with the non ploughing brigade about how well their crops look, forgetting to mention that last year a lot are on their second go, so to speak.
Looking at DD and conventional tillage failures around and including my own, I have come to the conclusion that any £££ of kit does not drive itself, and the failures were more often than not due to the idiot owners cracking on when they ought not to have. So combi-drilling wheat on the 8th March into some frost-mould over clart = stupid. Claydon drilling wheat into chocolate pudding when you could see inches of rain on the short-term forecast = stupid. Trying to plough a field on the frost which had had 20" of rain the the 4 month previous and still had the drains pouring = stupid.
Buying some mustard, spinning it on, getting something in the spring and leaving the wheat seed and kit in the shed after checking the cashflow = less stupid that redrilling for a third time in a season.
I love the DD forum. And I will do some more when the times are right.