Don't cultivate any deeper than necessary

3C - cost cutting concept

For the third time now and as part of Amazone's worldwide trials, Amazone Ltd plays host in 2009 to a set of second wheat trials. Based nearby to the Amazone Ltd headquarters at Harworth, Doncaster, the trials look to establish how far the degree of both tillage and drilling intensity can be reduced without effecting yields and profitability.
The trials layout follows the same pattern as used across the world: 4 main areas looking at the effects of the reducing level of cultivation intensity and these four areas split into 3 sub-plots where different drilling system are considered.

Tillage A: plough based conventional tillage
Tillage B: deep min-till conservation tillage to 22cm
Tillage C: medium min-till conservation tillage to 15cm
Tillage D: shallow min-till conservation tillage to 8cm

The Centaur tine & disc combination cultivator has been used for the deep and medium-deep min-till areas and the Catros compact disc harrow for the shallow min-till area.
The three drilling trials are carried out again using differing levels of intensity with the AD-P Super power harrow drill combination being utilised as the most agressive system followed by the Cirrus cultivator drill and then, with the least draught requirement and lowest fuel usage, the Cayena tine seeder.

As we head towards ear emergence in the coming weeks the results to date in terms of work rates, fuel consumption and plant counts can be downloaded as a PDF file on the link below.

Tickhill trials 2009

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