Triton drill

James W

Member
why shag your soil in December when you can drill into ideal conditions in the spring?
hello Beard face, did you enjoy your 'ideal conditions in the spring' our crops look fantastic will very little grass weed and almost no broadleaves. The Agrii satellite crop density and health screens show the highest density of biomass and yield potential colour shades in the area and thats with drilling dates from late November. How are your spring crops looking ?
 
hello Beard face, did you enjoy your 'ideal conditions in the spring' our crops look fantastic will very little grass weed and almost no broadleaves. The Agrii satellite crop density and health screens show the highest density of biomass and yield potential colour shades in the area and thats with drilling dates from late November. How are your spring crops looking ?
I think that as a drill designer you may have merit by as a salesman you are a disaster. You have put up some ridiculous figures and point blank refuse to show any pictures of the crops shown bring drilled.
Sarcasm is also a poor way to get customer attention. I would go away and rethink your sales methods as unless your drill can walk on water you won't sell many with your postings on here.
 

James W

Member
I am a farmer who uses a new type of seed drill which has transformed our farm. When other people try to make you look a fool for using the wrong equipment (equipment of which they have no experience) then it is hardly sarcasm to send their ill concieved comments back to them.
 

Fuzzy

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Bedfordshire
hello Beard face, did you enjoy your 'ideal conditions in the spring' our crops look fantastic will very little grass weed and almost no broadleaves. The Agrii satellite crop density and health screens show the highest density of biomass and yield potential colour shades in the area and thats with drilling dates from late November. How are your spring crops looking ?
Do you have any pictures or videos of how the crops are looking now please? What is the Blackgrass situation like ? Have you applied any BG sprays in the spring ?
 

James W

Member
We applied Atlantis in March to two fields which had no pre-em as it was too wet to travel behind the drill in December. These two fields do have an awful lot of blackgrass in them and Atlantis did nothing. The other fields look suprisingly clean. I would say that the drill date does not determine the black-grass control as much as the soil moisture on the drill date. So late drilling is usually in damp soils so that the pre-em has time to get down, round and under, the black-grass seed before it chits.
 

principal skinner

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Bedfordshire
On 12/3 you quoted ‘we have zero blackgrass’ what’s changed? Should you have spent the 30k you saved on herbicides?

I’m sorry but if you are going to make bold claims online and in the press you need to back them up
 

Shutesy

Moderator
Arable Farmer
I'm not convinced till I see pictures of the same areas at drilling, emergence, fert and fungicide applications and harvest. Some of the fields being drilled just looked like they shouldn't even be getting touched they were so wet. So far I have only really seen the drill putting seed in the ground, it's the growing crop and yield that matters.
 

marco

Member
hello Beard face, did you enjoy your 'ideal conditions in the spring' our crops look fantastic will very little grass weed and almost no broadleaves. The Agrii satellite crop density and health screens show the highest density of biomass and yield potential colour shades in the area and thats with drilling dates from late November. How are your spring crops looking ?
Is the crop density actually blackgrass?
 

Douglasmn

Member
Its very simple drill very cheap very strong snd drill it cost £13000 plus £6000 for seed hopper. No rolling. We just put lexus on straight behind the drill onto damp soil and being damp the lexus or the November drilling has led to clean crops so very cheap farming
How about some photos of the crops? A simple photo speaks a thousand words!
 

Shutesy

Moderator
Arable Farmer
Not easy to work out exactly what is what with all the videos, from what I can tell this wheat:
Has a few months later turned into:
(as posted above).

What I want to know is what this looks like now:
The first video drilling into a well cultivated seedbed, is a different world to what is being drilled into in the video just above, and is not much of a surprise that it looks pretty good in May whereas I can't work out if there is a video of the crop now from the drilling on Dec 4th in extreme sticky clay....
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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