- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
Common mistake, but I think you mean zero-till, not min till.looks like min till does not work in wet year ?
No doubt about the fact that some heavy land has suffered more where it was zero-tilled last Autumn, especially if it wasn’t drilled by the end of September in good conditions.
I’ve a neighbour who min-tilled (Sumo Trio) his crop and it looks well compared to most of mine.
But one the other side of him who mostly zero tilled (DD’d) that looks the same as mine.
However he ploughed one field and that looks no better than his DD’d crops.
Timing is the absolutely critical DD key, very closely followed by condition at and immediately following planting.
Get all 3 right and it’s fine.
2 out of 3 and it’ll be ‘also ran’.
1 out 3, terrible.
0 out of 3 disaster.