Content direct from those who make the drills and have spent years perfecting the way they work
FEATURES FOR THE WET Dale Drills have been helping farmers to drive down the cost of crop establishment for over 20 years. Founded by Lincolnshire farmer, John ‘Edward’ Dale, the company has been a long term advocate of low impact cultivation – recognizing the importance it has for improving soil structure and the associated benefits …
VIRKAR – IMPORTED BY SAMAGRI LTD Successful Spring Testing This article follows on from successful spring testing of the Virkar drill on our own farms, where we drilled a range of crops from spring oats, spring barley, maize, and sunflowers for environmental schemes. The results were very pleasing with great crop emergence due to the …
NOVAG SHINE AT AGRITECHNICA For the second time in its history Novag had a stand at Agritechnica and put the spotlight on no-till and the importance of soil health. A visit to the stand at the show allowed you to meet the team and view the 3m drill, their 6m drill and their “fish tank” …
VAXIO IS KEY MACHINE FOR SUMO British farm machinery manufacturer, Sumo, first launched the Vaxio at LAMMA 2018, and after 18 months of testing prototypes on-farm, the longawaited shallow cultivator went into full production in 2019. Available in 4m, 5m and 6m working widths, the Vaxio is a high-speed and versatile implement that combines surface …
At Agritechnica Väderstad presented an entirely new and unique technology in the form of the SeedEye seed counter for their seed drills. Farmers can now easily set the number of seeds per square metre without needing to perform calibration tests. SeedEye provides additional functionality for Väderstad’s established control system E-Control. SeedEye: 1. The operator sets …
CHALLENGING AUTUMN UNDERLINES THE NEED FOR A CROP ESTABLISHMENT SYSTEM TO COPE WITH ANY CONDITIONS The extreme wet weather this autumn underlined the importance of operating a system which can cope with all conditions, of soils being in optimum condition, minimising weather risk and having sufficient capacity to take advantage of weather windows, says direct …
FASTER, STRONGER AND MORE COSTEFFECTIVE – NO-TILL REAPS REWARDS FOR BEDFORDSHIRE FARM Justin Bennion, Farmer at C H Bennion & Sons in Bedfordshire, believes that the industry is ultimately moving in the direction of no-till farming. To that end, he has invested accordingly. In adopting Weaving Machinery’s LD TopSoiler, Justin has discovered that the move …
MZURI SAYS DON’T COMPROMISE THIS SPRING Headed by farmer and engineer Martin Lole, Mzuri is a leading manufacturer of strip tillage seed drills that have been tried and tested on the company’s trial farm since its inception. Formally a conventionally managed farm heavily infested with a high burden of blackgrass and charlock, the Mzuri Pro-Til …
WET YEARS ARE NO GOOD FOR DIRECT DRILLS Oh dear! RAIN, RAIN, RAIN. “A wet seasons no good for direct drills LAD” is the chant we hear incessantly, often with no experience of any Direct Drill. Yes it is, unworked stubble stands more water than worked, cover crops stand much more water than anything else …
COST PER TONNE OF PRODUCTION MUST BE THE KEY DRIVER The 2019 harvest yielded excellent results on the Claydon farm, resulting in a cost per tonne of production which provided a good margin, says direct strip seeding pioneer Jeff Claydon, who designed the Claydon Opti-Till® System. In Issue 6 of Direct Driller magazine I discussed …
