Growers go for combined grain and fertiliser drills

摘要

The technique of placing fertiliser at drilling time is moving out of its traditional stronghold in Scotland and northern England as growers in other parts of the UK look for ways of giving spring and winter crops alike an early nutrient boost. Growers wanting to place fertiliser with grain used not to be too well catered for when it came to drill choice and capacity. But increased interest in this approach outside of those areas where it is a long-established technique has encouraged manufacturers to devise grain and fertiliser or combined drills of just about every configuration. A number of these machines are expected to be in action at Tillage-Live 2012. Arguments remain as to the best location for fertiliser in the soil. In Scotland, it has long been the norm for spring barley growers to put fertiliser down the spout.