Spending £120,000 on a 5m Cross Slot drill has proved a worthwhile investment for Suffolk farmer David Bird. The aim of switching to the system from a Vaderstad Rapid seven years ago was to improve ...

Shelving a tried-and-tested drilling set-up on a 1,600ha arable farm that regularly returns healthy yields is a brave move. But Hampshire farm manager David Miller reckons switching to zero till is ...

There are no short-cuts to effective no-tillage. Indeed, no-tillage is a short-cut itself and short-cutting the short-cut is a recipe for disappointment, if not disaster. All plants sown from seed, ...