How much cheaper is a 100hp tractor and old Massey / Accord drill ?So ploughing uses 8 times more diesel then and emits 8 times more co2 then?
How much cheaper is a 100hp tractor and old Massey / Accord drill ?So ploughing uses 8 times more diesel then and emits 8 times more co2 then?
They are further up the food chain.I shall mention that to the moles and rabbits , but I hope the chickweed is now dead
And then the soil/grassland reabsorbed the carbon.Ploughing must bury the carbon but also exposes a load to the atmosphere. I kind of know the answer to your first question but not quite sure how to explain it accurately. Any soil scientists on here?
No slug problem either.Ok, so the rotting plant matter releases co2 when exposed to the atmosphere by ploughing out.
How is this different to rotting on top if it’s not ploughed in?
Is there an argument to say ploughing buries the carbon under the furrow? Since we’ve ploughed straw in every year, our soils work better, I’ve always considered this to be the organic matter within the soil, put there by ploughing? We are talking extremes- it was burned before so no organic material left anywhere.
looks like donald trumpAnd you poison the land ...
How much cheaper is a 100hp tractor and old Massey / Accord drill ?
Or wirewormsNo slug problem either.
Or leather jackets, birds can eat them off ploughed ground.Or wireworms
How long was that old ley down for?Plough what's that dinasor
Thats old fashion hand that is
Releasing all that carbon and burning all that fuel and picking all those stone
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The best dd system moves the most soil , work it outIs the direct drilling theory against discing too or just ploughing?
Go over with a scattering of barley to bring in the rooks and bingo let's nature do the work for youOr leather jackets, birds can eat them off ploughed ground.
Can't be because they use discs on some of them.Is the direct drilling theory against discing too or just ploughing?
I took time out . PH dropped to low and the productive grasses gave up died . I'm back in the driving seat now . Reseeding again . I could not stand the thought of all that expensive ploughing . Ploughing all that goodness from the top layer underground, all that surface cultivating all that stone to pick , all those weeds seed bought up from the deep to spring back into lifeThey are further up the food chain.
I am talking about the livestock in the biggest asset you have the soil.
Why did you have to reseed it? Must have been a failure on your behalf to get to that stage? Seen other pictures of you ripping trees out and making huge ruts in wet land.
It's not just the soil life you like to upset?
My plough + Combi system used 8 times more diesel to establish a crop compared with my DD system.So ploughing uses 8 times more diesel then and emits 8 times more co2 then?
You let someone raped the ground and now think by DD you won't get done for aiding and abetting?I took time out . PH dropped to low and the productive grasses gave up died . I'm back in the driving seat now . Reseeding again . I could not stand the thought of all that expensive ploughing . Ploughing all that goodness from the top layer underground, all that surface cultivating all that stone to pick , all those weeds seed bought up from the deep to spring back into life
Then it came to me. Deal with the weeds in the top layer then just drill into that . Its a miracle
It had cattle grazing it .You let someone raped the ground and now think by DD you won't get done for aiding and abetting? [emoji6]
What's cattle got to do with it?It had cattle grazing it .
If yiu don't look after marginal land it goes backwards . If you want to learn summat go speak to the marginal farmers of the World.
How much are they ? I don't see much under £10k ( and I mean refurbished, ready to go ).To compare like with like, surely you need to compare with an ageing Moore Unidrill, which could be easily handled by 100hp...