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Regenerative Agriculture and Direct Drilling
Regen Ag General Discussion
Wide spacing cereal crops... pictures please
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<blockquote data-quote="Clive" data-source="post: 7747032" data-attributes="member: 6"><p>I've had situations in the past even on our easy soil types when we could simply not get the coulter in the ground, easy to forget after a few wet seasons but when the ground dries out it gets very hard and if not cultivated to loosen then you are reliant upon coulter pressure to get your consistent seed depth into any moisture etc - that means you need weight and a nice straight disc, stuff like the Novag / cross slot comes into its own in such situations IMO but at a price and HP requirement of the course and sadly I didn't have the luxury of such an option </p><p></p><p>Also in our early years of no-till the slot was not always easy to close behind drills like the 750a (avatar is v similar really) - if a wet spell followed after drilling that was less than ideal. I think this would have been another place where that CS coulter design would have been beneficial had it been available to me at the time </p><p></p><p>These issues are a much bigger problem on not so easy soil types and why some think that no-till simply can't work (consistently) for them on "heavy" land - I've got away with it on our soil type by waiting for better conditions and/or strapping weight to drills like out 750a or making other modifications </p><p></p><p> </p><p>The CO is great in the wet or where hairpinning could cause major agronomical headaches, but does move more soil, lacks consolidation (slugs !!) and can't cope with anything like the amount of cover crop or previous crop residue that a disc drill can</p><p></p><p>There is no single drill that is ideal in all situations, its not surprising to me that so many no-till farmers end up becoming drill collectors or modifying them to suit !!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Clive, post: 7747032, member: 6"] I've had situations in the past even on our easy soil types when we could simply not get the coulter in the ground, easy to forget after a few wet seasons but when the ground dries out it gets very hard and if not cultivated to loosen then you are reliant upon coulter pressure to get your consistent seed depth into any moisture etc - that means you need weight and a nice straight disc, stuff like the Novag / cross slot comes into its own in such situations IMO but at a price and HP requirement of the course and sadly I didn't have the luxury of such an option Also in our early years of no-till the slot was not always easy to close behind drills like the 750a (avatar is v similar really) - if a wet spell followed after drilling that was less than ideal. I think this would have been another place where that CS coulter design would have been beneficial had it been available to me at the time These issues are a much bigger problem on not so easy soil types and why some think that no-till simply can't work (consistently) for them on "heavy" land - I've got away with it on our soil type by waiting for better conditions and/or strapping weight to drills like out 750a or making other modifications The CO is great in the wet or where hairpinning could cause major agronomical headaches, but does move more soil, lacks consolidation (slugs !!) and can't cope with anything like the amount of cover crop or previous crop residue that a disc drill can There is no single drill that is ideal in all situations, its not surprising to me that so many no-till farmers end up becoming drill collectors or modifying them to suit !! [/QUOTE]
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