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Regen Ag General Discussion
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<blockquote data-quote="Clive" data-source="post: 631249" data-attributes="member: 6"><p>Basically I was never any good at ploughing ! Tried it once aged circa 16 seemed very slow and my driving in straight lines was very poor ! 15 years of mintill latter I was converted by a 609hp Cat challenger with a thirst for 100plus L/hr and a 26k wearing metal bill in 4 weeks !</p><p></p><p>I recall sitting waiting on a headland with the second fuel bowser full of the day watching this monster dragging a solo along all to make a tiny rape seed grow and thinking how ridiculous "min till" had got</p><p></p><p>I had messed about with zerotill previously, even had a CS here to try a field of osr in 2006 but never with the education behind me needed to understand properly what I was really doing and with naivety that it was all about machinery and nothing else needed to change. I had always left establishment to others as it wasn't really my interest and went ignored by me as my skills were all sprayers and harvesting and I was never much of an ace tractor driver.</p><p></p><p>A previous couple of years with a Claydon v drill shared with Lee had at least demonstrated to me that on our soils there was certainly no penalty in direct drilling despite it not working out for Lee but this time I wanted to go further and cut right down to what was needed, good as it was I had seen flaws with the early Claydon like trash flow and consolidation so knew what needed improvement, Looking back at this <a href="http://www.farmersguardian.com/taking-one-step-back-to-hopefully-move-forwards/24632.article" target="_blank">http://www.farmersguardian.com/taking-one-step-back-to-hopefully-move-forwards/24632.article</a>. I can see my thoughts at the time were certainly less than clear !</p><p></p><p>I dragged my main tractor driver and father down to see [USER=1233]@Simon Chiles[/USER] who kindly showed me around his farm, by the time we had left we had bought his drill ! I guess ultimately it was the Internet and forums that put me in touch with people like Simon who kindly gave me the education I needed, that invaluable transfer of information also became the reason I became passionate that more should be done to help other farmers share such information as it was soon apparent to me there was little commercial or independent research that was going to forward the technique, <a href="http://www.750a.co.uk" target="_blank">www.750a.co.uk</a> <a href="http://www.directdriller.com" target="_blank">www.directdriller.com</a> and ultimately TFF was the result of that</p><p></p><p>The rest is rather well documented history !</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Clive, post: 631249, member: 6"] Basically I was never any good at ploughing ! Tried it once aged circa 16 seemed very slow and my driving in straight lines was very poor ! 15 years of mintill latter I was converted by a 609hp Cat challenger with a thirst for 100plus L/hr and a 26k wearing metal bill in 4 weeks ! I recall sitting waiting on a headland with the second fuel bowser full of the day watching this monster dragging a solo along all to make a tiny rape seed grow and thinking how ridiculous "min till" had got I had messed about with zerotill previously, even had a CS here to try a field of osr in 2006 but never with the education behind me needed to understand properly what I was really doing and with naivety that it was all about machinery and nothing else needed to change. I had always left establishment to others as it wasn't really my interest and went ignored by me as my skills were all sprayers and harvesting and I was never much of an ace tractor driver. A previous couple of years with a Claydon v drill shared with Lee had at least demonstrated to me that on our soils there was certainly no penalty in direct drilling despite it not working out for Lee but this time I wanted to go further and cut right down to what was needed, good as it was I had seen flaws with the early Claydon like trash flow and consolidation so knew what needed improvement, Looking back at this [url]http://www.farmersguardian.com/taking-one-step-back-to-hopefully-move-forwards/24632.article[/url]. I can see my thoughts at the time were certainly less than clear ! I dragged my main tractor driver and father down to see [USER=1233]@Simon Chiles[/USER] who kindly showed me around his farm, by the time we had left we had bought his drill ! I guess ultimately it was the Internet and forums that put me in touch with people like Simon who kindly gave me the education I needed, that invaluable transfer of information also became the reason I became passionate that more should be done to help other farmers share such information as it was soon apparent to me there was little commercial or independent research that was going to forward the technique, [URL='http://www.750a.co.uk']www.750a.co.uk[/URL] [URL='http://www.directdriller.com']www.directdriller.com[/URL] and ultimately TFF was the result of that The rest is rather well documented history ! [/QUOTE]
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