Arable growers rate their direct drills

摘要

We caught up with the owners of two direct drills that are relatively new to the UK. James Andrews gets the lowdown on a 4m Novag T-Force run by Andrew Tucker in Wiltshire and, overleaf, Oliver Mark speaks to Oxon grower Ralph Castle about his VirkarDynamic. We were running a min-till system based around a Vaderstad Topdown cultivator and 6m Rapid drill, which had worked well for years. But after a couple of seasons of poor establishment due to wet weather and a growing grassweed problem, we decided to try something different.