Ploughing the only way forward to repair flood damage to soil
Flood damage to soil and flood-repair is one situation that will benefit more from full tillage of the soil rather than no-tillage (or direct drilling), says the New Zealand specialist soil scientist John Baker. Any organic matter and soil microbial life in that eroded soil will have been stripped out and washed away, so it […]
Direct drilling trials to highlight cost savings
Arable farmers have been hard hit with fluctuating grain prices and rocketing fuel costs and with zero tillage being one way to reduce crop production costs, Berrys and Frontier are putting on field-scale demonstrations to see if direct drilling can do the job. The plots have been established at Lamport Hall near Kettering, a 2000-acre […]
