What % of Crops are you Direct Drilling

[Fuzzy]

As above, closes in 20 days.

 

[Acke]

All no-till!

 

[Banana Bar]

5% and rising

 

[Tom Sewell]

All no-till here and I'd say the most popular machines being sold at the moment are no-till & strip till drills. I think shifting second hand tillage gear might be tricky over next few years.

 

[RTK Farmer]

Everything except where we lifted beet. Fuel supplier thinks I've lost their number, not recognised at local machinery dealers spares counter anymore, only need a 6 cyl tractor to tow a grain trailer now.

 

[Tom Sewell]

I'm certain that the percentage will rise. Just glad we jumped in with both feet and made the change before these poor prices, delayed and depleted BPS payments and starting to build our own house!! I'm sure more people would make the switch if they could afford to but times very tight just now!

 

[4course]

not a sq ft ever again

 

[its yourself]

100%

 

[Fuzzy]

not a sq ft ever again

So what went wrong ?

 

[ajd132]

Around 50% and the rest was just very shallowly moved abit

 

[An Gof]

0%

 

[Louis Mc]

40% this year.

 

[britt]

90%. The other bit was just to level the ground from the last time that it was cultivated.
The longer the ground is in notill the more any troughs or ridges in the ground seem to become exaggerated.

 

[SilliamWhale]

Been about 80-100% most years for nearly ten years.

 

[4course]

So what went wrong ?

slugs, grass weeds, lower yield, cost/ton, twas a few years ago but still wont take the risk again of poor crop at least not when I can do something to avoid it and looking around at the standing water on some on my travels compared to here even though we have some, and the poor est of some later sown blackgrass land I will take some convincing to have another go

 

[Richard III]

100%, going into year 7.

 

[htj]

100% Four harvests now complete with zero till.

 

[JNG]

100% 3 years strip tilling and one no till.

 

[Northdowns Martin]

80% with remaining 20% subsoiled OSR. We will be ploughing some ex orchard which is contract farmed, sprung cropped then returned to orchard following winter.

 

[captaintractors]

35% this year