Good stuff. If you can do follow up videos of the progress of this cover crop and then the subsequent wheat establishment, that would provide a very useful real world demonstration of this kind of drill for us viewers. 👍 My observation has been that those of us trying to employ regenerative techniques, are finding that regular use of disc type drills to establish all crops on heavy clay land can gradually lead to yield limiting surface compaction & be a big problem in wet years. All action of discs and slot closures is pressing the soil down reducing aggregation, drainage & aeration. Whereas use of some kind of low disturbance tine can lift the surface to improve drainage and aeration.
Hi, yes I’ll try and do some follow up videos following crops through their cycle. Regarding heavy clay, discs and tines. Firstly the Horizon trial farm is 350ha of low lying (whole farm above or below sea level by half a metre), heavy silty clay(from 30-60% clay content). With such low lying clay and the silt pulling the clay together, no-till is not easy and cannot be a ‘1 size fits all approach’. We have a deep tine in the rotation for strip till row crops, use cover crops / living roots as much as possible. We are also not afraid to use cultivations if the soil conditions are not suitable for no-till. The huge rainfall in Lincolnshire this year has meant a lot of our soils have gone incredibly tight and lost all the air so we are having to do corrective work to get that back on side. A different soil type would have handled that rainfall a lot better, both the drills in this video are in high rainfall areas (Gloucestershire and Aberdeenshire) but the soil types can handle the rain better than our sea level bottomless clay Disc and tines both have pros and cons, the disc will always win in terms of seed placement, drilling into cover crop and stealth no disturbance drilling but a tine clearly moves more soil for drainage and mineralisation and can also offer advantages in wet clays
Hi, we have DSX running on hills all over the world and it’s fine. We typically recommend 35hp per metre on the DSX and that is accommodating for hills, on the flat 25hp per metre is fine. Across a steep hill the drill can grab a little bit but because it is typically working in unmoved soil and because the discs face different directions (left and right) the crabbing is minimal in comparison to machines working in moved soil that have nothing to hold them in place
How does it handle large amounts of trash? Does it have enough downforce to penetrate hard dry soil conditions? Do you have agents in South Africa? Thank you.
Hi Jarid, firstly we have a 6m demo machine in Kenya that we are looking to move to South Africa because we have several farmers who want to try it. Would you be interested in a seeing it run when we get it to SA? Drop me WhatsApp / text on +447852794722 and we’ll get a plan together. Regarding trash, that’s no problem for the dsx disc and what it’s designed for, you have the option of 15cm, 16,7cm, 19,7cm, 20cm and 25cm row spacing, clearly the wider you go the more clearance there is. Regarding downforce, because of the 10 degree disc angle, the row unit naturally pulls itself into the ground so it penetrates very well. Depending on drill weight and amount of coulters, typically the maximum downforce is between 250kg and 300kg Do let me know if you want to have a look in SA. Charlie
We could do that with liquid but not really with granular. You can sow alternate rows with different products so you could set it up on 15cm row spacing with every other row sowing the cash crop at 30cm spacing and then the feet could go in between
Ha, yes. You’ll struggle to find a better no-till disc drill package, that’s why we’ve now sold them into 26 countries worldwide, we’re only 4 years old!
Good stuff. If you can do follow up videos of the progress of this cover crop and then the subsequent wheat establishment, that would provide a very useful real world demonstration of this kind of drill for us viewers. 👍
My observation has been that those of us trying to employ regenerative techniques, are finding that regular use of disc type drills to establish all crops on heavy clay land can gradually lead to yield limiting surface compaction & be a big problem in wet years. All action of discs and slot closures is pressing the soil down reducing aggregation, drainage & aeration. Whereas use of some kind of low disturbance tine can lift the surface to improve drainage and aeration.
Hi, yes I’ll try and do some follow up videos following crops through their cycle.
Regarding heavy clay, discs and tines.
Firstly the Horizon trial farm is 350ha of low lying (whole farm above or below sea level by half a metre), heavy silty clay(from 30-60% clay content). With such low lying clay and the silt pulling the clay together, no-till is not easy and cannot be a ‘1 size fits all approach’. We have a deep tine in the rotation for strip till row crops, use cover crops / living roots as much as possible. We are also not afraid to use cultivations if the soil conditions are not suitable for no-till. The huge rainfall in Lincolnshire this year has meant a lot of our soils have gone incredibly tight and lost all the air so we are having to do corrective work to get that back on side. A different soil type would have handled that rainfall a lot better, both the drills in this video are in high rainfall areas (Gloucestershire and Aberdeenshire) but the soil types can handle the rain better than our sea level bottomless clay
Disc and tines both have pros and cons, the disc will always win in terms of seed placement, drilling into cover crop and stealth no disturbance drilling but a tine clearly moves more soil for drainage and mineralisation and can also offer advantages in wet clays
i must admit, i was rather unsure on no til drills- but this looks like its doing a great job
Where in Colorado is the DSX?
Why are the rims red?
Is seed layer about disc cut for water to get away without rotting the seed,how does it do in ploughed land
How do you get that over hill country in New Zealand
Hi, we have DSX running on hills all over the world and it’s fine. We typically recommend 35hp per metre on the DSX and that is accommodating for hills, on the flat 25hp per metre is fine. Across a steep hill the drill can grab a little bit but because it is typically working in unmoved soil and because the discs face different directions (left and right) the crabbing is minimal in comparison to machines working in moved soil that have nothing to hold them in place
How does it handle large amounts of trash? Does it have enough downforce to penetrate hard dry soil conditions? Do you have agents in South Africa? Thank you.
ruclips.net/video/Mt4cJi2HMrA/видео.html&si=8DjIRFuwnIkKLVyn our current drill and conditions.
Hi Jarid, firstly we have a 6m demo machine in Kenya that we are looking to move to South Africa because we have several farmers who want to try it. Would you be interested in a seeing it run when we get it to SA? Drop me WhatsApp / text on +447852794722 and we’ll get a plan together.
Regarding trash, that’s no problem for the dsx disc and what it’s designed for, you have the option of 15cm, 16,7cm, 19,7cm, 20cm and 25cm row spacing, clearly the wider you go the more clearance there is.
Regarding downforce, because of the 10 degree disc angle, the row unit naturally pulls itself into the ground so it penetrates very well. Depending on drill weight and amount of coulters, typically the maximum downforce is between 250kg and 300kg
Do let me know if you want to have a look in SA. Charlie
Is this drill capable of mid row fertilize banding between the seed rows?
We could do that with liquid but not really with granular.
You can sow alternate rows with different products so you could set it up on 15cm row spacing with every other row sowing the cash crop at 30cm spacing and then the feet could go in between
Who got it from Estonia?
Hi, I am told the customer is
Arvi Kruussalu near Pärnu. It was sold by Karlis at our Latvian dealer Graintech
Worlds best?
Ha, yes. You’ll struggle to find a better no-till disc drill package, that’s why we’ve now sold them into 26 countries worldwide, we’re only 4 years old!
😂 A highly debatable statement!
Overbury?