To be fair, ploughing could well get banned with the way the legislation is going!' Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler?'
If I had bit then 'stupid boy' would not have been my response.
Stupid boy
To be fair, ploughing could well get banned with the way the legislation is going!' Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler?'
If I had bit then 'stupid boy' would not have been my response.
Stupid boy
Well, we don’t know.
You maybe have got one angle of it covered and maybe I have the other angle.
However, wouldn’t it be a bugger if having made ploughing illegal (which I doubt that they could or would do), they then banned glyphosate?
That is why I warn of certain farmers shouting too load about their system, with no regard whatsoever that it won’t work everywhere.
Where a-bouts in Suffolk are you? I used to farm there myself.
I get you. I was North Suffolk, Harleston, Halesworth, Bungay area. Beccles serried clays. I keep in contact with many old friends over that way. A few are trying No-til, mostly using Claydon Type drills. Many I know tried min-TIL, gave that up a s a bad job and have gone back to the plough.South bury on the hanslope. I agree with you, I don’t really care what others do, it’s fun to stir though!
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Absolutely spot on!Just came back from a conference held by a local Solicitor firm.
One of the speaker was trying to motivate us to look into new technology to stay ahead of reduced BPS incomes.
In his presentation he put something on the screen that said something like this:
“90% of new Agricultural technology is sold to us to solve a problem that doesn’t actually exist!”
Sort of shot himself in the foot, me thinks!
But thinking about it, it is absolutely true!
Not so with No-TIL perhaps. But definitely so with a lot of the electrical toys/gadgetry, most of which never gets used.
Just came back from a conference held by a local Solicitor firm.
One of the speaker was trying to motivate us to look into new technology to stay ahead of reduced BPS incomes.
In his presentation he put something on the screen that said something like this:
“90% of new Agricultural technology is sold to us to solve a problem that doesn’t actually exist!”
Sort of shot himself in the foot, me thinks!
But thinking about it, it is absolutely true!
Not so with No-TIL perhaps. But definitely so with a lot of the electrical toys/gadgetry, most of which never gets used.
And MS OfficeAbsolutely spot on!
steering is about the only tech I can think of that is worth it at the moment.
We had 3 drills at various points, mix of land types from Chalky Wold to Marsh Clay and everything in between. Our philosophy is to have the kit to get the job done irrespective of the weather. We now have a 9m Sumo DTS, 4m Sumo DTS and 8m Horsch Avatar. We can cover 500ac a day comfortably which the sprayer can get pre-em'd at 200l/ha while spraying off in front. Yes one 12m drill should be able to cover everything, however it can only be in one field at a time. We adapt our drills to the fields at the time of drilling. We have no ploughs anymore and are not considering buying one, blackgrass can be reduced through rotation and cultivation adaptations, not necessarily glyphosate. I would be more concerned about the removal of red diesel, putting £1.40/l fuel into a tractor to burn 100l/hr when I could be at 40l/hr doesn't make sense, as long as yield is maintained. I'm not bothered what anyone else does and am quite happy to show people round what we do and how if you want to know!
And exactly what is the problem that autosteer solves ?Absolutely spot on!
steering is about the only tech I can think of that is worth it at the moment.
I'm guessing you don't use auto steer.And exactly what is the problem that autosteer solves ?
You have a driver that can look where they are going and turn the wheel guide the tractor.
I can see the point on a sprayer or fert spreader where there are no tramlines to follow, but then tramlines solve that problem.
From what I've seen autosteer failures (incorrect setting or signal loss ) cause more drilling misses than driver errors.
And exactly what is the problem that autosteer solves ?
You have a driver that can look where they are going and turn the wheel guide the tractor.
I can see the point on a sprayer or fert spreader where there are no tramlines to follow, but then tramlines solve that problem.
From what I've seen autosteer failures (incorrect setting or signal loss ) cause more drilling misses than driver errors.
When drilling into a fair amount of mulch, we found conventional markers are pretty much useless, so got autosteer for that purposeAnd exactly what is the problem that autosteer solves ?
You have a driver that can look where they are going and turn the wheel guide the tractor.
I can see the point on a sprayer or fert spreader where there are no tramlines to follow, but then tramlines solve that problem.
From what I've seen autosteer failures (incorrect setting or signal loss ) cause more drilling misses than driver errors.
I’m guess you don’t have auto steer. I havnt had a drop out for longer than 20 seconds in about 7 years. It pays for itself very quickly.And exactly what is the problem that autosteer solves ?
You have a driver that can look where they are going and turn the wheel guide the tractor.
I can see the point on a sprayer or fert spreader where there are no tramlines to follow, but then tramlines solve that problem.
From what I've seen autosteer failures (incorrect setting or signal loss ) cause more drilling misses than driver errors.