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Regen Ag and No-till Machinery
The Cross slot vs 750a trial
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<blockquote data-quote="Feldspar" data-source="post: 4213614" data-attributes="member: 386"><p>It's been all quiet on the Cross Slot front for a long while, unless I've missed anything. I'm curious to hear how the various different CS users are getting on with a year or so more under their belts.</p><p></p><p>Thinking back to the 750a vs CS trial, the one thing that I've learnt with the 750a is it is quite a bit worse going into chopped straw than I was expecting. With our clays they are not often totally dry, which means the disc doesn't have anything hard to press the straw against to cut through it. Easy to say, "Just don't grow 2nd wheats", but it also stops winter barley in to heavy spring barley crops, and spring barley into winter wheat stubble. This year even our OSR stubbles are tricky because they were baled leaving tracks of residue left from the bits the baler didn't pick up.</p><p></p><p>Slot closure has also not been quite as good as I was expecting, although not too bad. The Guttler works fairly well, although on strong soils which damp it often struggles. This problem is helped by the below approach. When I saw the CS working at Groundswell 2016 I thought the result looked pretty bad.</p><p></p><p>At the moment we're dealing with this problem by shallow cultivating, which has the extra benefit of leaving a drier tilth which I think allows later drilling in the autumn with better establishment and earlier drilling in the spring. Overall, it's not a bad compromise to be at and I am not too worried about this level of shallow disturbance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Feldspar, post: 4213614, member: 386"] It's been all quiet on the Cross Slot front for a long while, unless I've missed anything. I'm curious to hear how the various different CS users are getting on with a year or so more under their belts. Thinking back to the 750a vs CS trial, the one thing that I've learnt with the 750a is it is quite a bit worse going into chopped straw than I was expecting. With our clays they are not often totally dry, which means the disc doesn't have anything hard to press the straw against to cut through it. Easy to say, "Just don't grow 2nd wheats", but it also stops winter barley in to heavy spring barley crops, and spring barley into winter wheat stubble. This year even our OSR stubbles are tricky because they were baled leaving tracks of residue left from the bits the baler didn't pick up. Slot closure has also not been quite as good as I was expecting, although not too bad. The Guttler works fairly well, although on strong soils which damp it often struggles. This problem is helped by the below approach. When I saw the CS working at Groundswell 2016 I thought the result looked pretty bad. At the moment we're dealing with this problem by shallow cultivating, which has the extra benefit of leaving a drier tilth which I think allows later drilling in the autumn with better establishment and earlier drilling in the spring. Overall, it's not a bad compromise to be at and I am not too worried about this level of shallow disturbance. [/QUOTE]
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