Having used a Dale drill successfully for 20 years of notillage leaving all straw chopped on the surface with a mix of autumn and spring sown cash crops . I have come to the conclusion that a notillage idealist approach is maybe not the answer and we have to be flexible to aerating the soil with machinery when needed and/ or growing a restorative crop for at least two years in a rotation to maintain enough airspace in the soil.
The flavour at the moment is growing covercrops to maintain the root in the soil but in our experience the termination of covercrops for spring cash crops is or can be problematic from an allopathic point of view.
What are other longer term direct drill farmers thoughts on this.?
The flavour at the moment is growing covercrops to maintain the root in the soil but in our experience the termination of covercrops for spring cash crops is or can be problematic from an allopathic point of view.
What are other longer term direct drill farmers thoughts on this.?