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Regenerative Agriculture and Direct Drilling
Regen Ag and No-till Machinery
The Cross slot vs 750a trial
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<blockquote data-quote="SilliamWhale" data-source="post: 1747246" data-attributes="member: 1232"><p>What I'm saying is that provided you've got enough seeds in the ground up and growing for your chosen system (tillage, no tillage, min tillage etc.) then beyond that you cannot really attribute yield increase to the drill if you have the plants you wanted. There is an issue of fitness for purpose as well of course which is why you wouldn't use a suffolk coulter drill on its own for no till for obvious reasons.</p><p></p><p>So an old beaten up suffolk coulter drill from the 60's is just as <u>capable</u> of getting a 12t/ha crop as a £200k cross slot, though obviously your 60's drill would not be capable of no till and would need tillage to work. Its all about getting the optimal amount of seeds in the ground and established. Clives demo a while back highlighted this. I think David Walstons trial will also show the same thing (not a lot of difference give or take) and most of the time drill trials show that . Cross Slot trials don't show yield increases from the drill, neither do Horsch, neither to John Deere, neither do Claydon. There will be some years where that extra bit of moisture may have helped or hindered and other scenarios but its still not drill specific. </p><p></p><p>I did say notwithstanding fertility issues which are not specifically drill related. They are soil related.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SilliamWhale, post: 1747246, member: 1232"] What I'm saying is that provided you've got enough seeds in the ground up and growing for your chosen system (tillage, no tillage, min tillage etc.) then beyond that you cannot really attribute yield increase to the drill if you have the plants you wanted. There is an issue of fitness for purpose as well of course which is why you wouldn't use a suffolk coulter drill on its own for no till for obvious reasons. So an old beaten up suffolk coulter drill from the 60's is just as [U]capable[/U] of getting a 12t/ha crop as a £200k cross slot, though obviously your 60's drill would not be capable of no till and would need tillage to work. Its all about getting the optimal amount of seeds in the ground and established. Clives demo a while back highlighted this. I think David Walstons trial will also show the same thing (not a lot of difference give or take) and most of the time drill trials show that . Cross Slot trials don't show yield increases from the drill, neither do Horsch, neither to John Deere, neither do Claydon. There will be some years where that extra bit of moisture may have helped or hindered and other scenarios but its still not drill specific. I did say notwithstanding fertility issues which are not specifically drill related. They are soil related. [/QUOTE]
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