Kverneland say ploughing sequestrates more carbon

[DrDunc]

Why Ploughing with Kverneland

Your soil is your asset. It is important to preserve it while making a revenue from it. Thinking like you is in our DNA. Ole Gabriel Kverneland, our founder, educated in farming and black-smith, understood the challenges in farming.

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Kverneland say the findings of a €3 million European study show that good ploughing sequestrates more carbon than min or no till' farming

They say that by inverting organic matter (ploughing) in comparison to leaving it to rot on the surface, Co2 emissions are reduced. Furthermore seeds are buried to a depth that dramatically reduces germination

Does this mean the actual benefits of min/no till' are purely financial? That with reduced Co2 emissions and chemical usage, ploughing is actually better for the environment?

Ploughing and crop rotation is what us "old fashioned" mixed farmers still do

 

[Chae1]

Does anyone understand it?

I think they make it up as they go along.

 

[soapsud]

Good for Kverneland. Not a big picture study though. Only partial. But it's good that the min till narrative will now feel obliged to come back with an analysis of upstream-downstream environmental costs (from R&D design-manufacture, to fuel, to chemical costs).

 

[M-J-G]

Does anyone understand it?

I think they make it up as they go along.

The whole carbon being a problem myth is made up as they go along to suit the agenda

 

[vantage]

Of course it does!

 

[Nearly]

Result of study favours opinion of company / group funding the study shocker!

 

[delilah]

There is no public good in using public money to favour one form of crop establishment over others. Everyone on here who told Defra otherwise, you have caused incalculable damage to UK ag by ensuring the SFI is a complete sh!tfest.

 

[Chae1]

The whole carbon being a problem myth is made up as they go along to suit the agenda

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Have any farmers benefitted from it!?

No, the facts suit them that are going to earn money from it.

 

[GmB]

 

[BuskhillFarm]

I seen a study about 5 years ago saying that ploughing/min-til and no till all worked out equal by the end of the planted crop.

Who knows? And less do I care.

Organic ploughing bound to be better than high use chems and fert shipped all over the world, like wise all the crap we ship round the world and we are worrying if our £10k ploughs are making the planet fart a bit more than the neighbours £90k horshe?

 

[Nearly]

Does it only work with a red plough?

I can black land over with a £2k Dowdeswell and combi drill as easily and no more time than a pass with discs, spray glypho and then freeflow drill.
There's about £60 in fuel difference but that's the glypho cost.
All of the toys are in the toybox, some of them stay there, but they're all paid for.

 

[Vader]

Why Ploughing with Kverneland

Your soil is your asset. It is important to preserve it while making a revenue from it. Thinking like you is in our DNA. Ole Gabriel Kverneland, our founder, educated in farming and black-smith, understood the challenges in farming.

ien.kverneland.com

Kverneland say the findings of a €3 million European study show that good ploughing sequestrates more carbon than min or no till' farming

They say that by inverting organic matter (ploughing) in comparison to leaving it to rot on the surface, Co2 emissions are reduced. Furthermore seeds are buried to a depth that dramatically reduces germination

Does this mean the actual benefits of min/no till' are purely financial? That with reduced Co2 emissions and chemical usage, ploughing is actually better for the environment?

Ploughing and crop rotation is what us "old fashioned" mixed farmers still do

So Janet has sfi paying for the wrong thing.
SFI should pay for ploughing.
DD boys don't need a payment anyway as they want to do it as it's so great and earns them lots of ££ from great crops they say.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Well now I’m thoroughly fecking racked off.

My lad and I have had a busy afternoon plooin’ and all the while I was thinking that we were engaged in some mindless ruination of the planet, disguised as fun and thoroughly useful.

But now I read that we’ve actually been doing a good thing.

You just can’t do wrong for doing right, can you?

 

[puppet]

Does anyone have the FW article on an arable farm selling carbon credit for up to £150k to an F1 team.
They have depleted their soils so will now sequester carbon by planting grass and introducing LIVESTOCK!!! It will take 20 years.
Meanwhile my livestock grassland farm is a net emitter.
So they release soil carbon for 50 years then someone else pays them to replace it while offsetting it against emissions from F1 cars and private jets.
The whole thing is sheer quackery yet millions have been hoodwinked.

 

[yellow belly]

A 1 year study by a plough manufacturer not very reliable

The study should be long term

It takes decades for the organic matter to be reduced when permenant pasture is ploughed up the nitrogen released every year adding to the crop yield but eventually this fall to a low level

This is not just in the uk

 

[kit1023]

SOH1 cannot be ignored when margins are tight

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Well at least we have the correct make of plough.

 

[Wigeon]

I've just bought a new kv.

I'm feeling very regenerative and sequestered.

I also don't really know what those words mean, but I'm certainly feeling them right now.

I'm fairly sure it's the future.

 

[puppet]

I've just bought a new kv.

I'm feeling very regenerative and sequestered.

I also don't really know what those words mean, but I'm certainly feeling them right now.

I'm fairly sure it's the future.

You forgot sustainable too.

 

[Grass And Grain]

Good chunk of our ploughing has a dose of FYM beforehand. Adds some OM.

Disadvantage of ploughing is we never bother with a cover crop (ahead of autumn sown cereals), due to hassle of destroying the cover..