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Regenerative Agriculture and Direct Drilling
Regen Ag and No-till Machinery
Vaderstad Rapid for direct drilling?
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<blockquote data-quote="tealdog038" data-source="post: 2655288" data-attributes="member: 2626"><p>have a rd300c with system disc on the front which is our main direct drill, it replaced a duncan enviro (triple disc setup). we have successfully drilled turnips, kale, grass, clover, lucerne, oats, maize and even fertilizer into pasture. soil types here are sand peat and silt and a mixture of these together. penetration on harder soils is a problem but not so much with the extra weight of the system disc. slot closure is always going to be hit an miss unless the drill has closing wheels but it has never been much of an issue for us. seed depth does vary slightly on differing soil moisture content as there are no gauge wheels but the rapid linkage to the rear tyre packer do work well. it does a good job for what it is and every drill has good points and bad points but for us the extra options you have on a rapid like light cultivation, the ability to drill in no till and ploughed ground with little adjustment and to sow fert, seed and small seeds/granules in 1 pass with 125mmm spacings just suited our operation best.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tealdog038, post: 2655288, member: 2626"] have a rd300c with system disc on the front which is our main direct drill, it replaced a duncan enviro (triple disc setup). we have successfully drilled turnips, kale, grass, clover, lucerne, oats, maize and even fertilizer into pasture. soil types here are sand peat and silt and a mixture of these together. penetration on harder soils is a problem but not so much with the extra weight of the system disc. slot closure is always going to be hit an miss unless the drill has closing wheels but it has never been much of an issue for us. seed depth does vary slightly on differing soil moisture content as there are no gauge wheels but the rapid linkage to the rear tyre packer do work well. it does a good job for what it is and every drill has good points and bad points but for us the extra options you have on a rapid like light cultivation, the ability to drill in no till and ploughed ground with little adjustment and to sow fert, seed and small seeds/granules in 1 pass with 125mmm spacings just suited our operation best. [/QUOTE]
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