no till drill, planter, seeder, direct drilling, minimum, zero, soil carbon loss

View the no till direct drill planting and seeding with minimum to zero soil moisture and carbon loss in such a way as you have never seen it done before.
SNT (Specialty No Till) is primarily involved in designing and creating cutting edge high speed no till coulter disc, direct drill, minimum till, zero till agricultural seeding technologies that will save time, money and the environment by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, soil moisture/carbon loss (in agriculture) and the associated impact on global warming through dramatically reduced input costs/fuel consumption and oxidization of Soil Organic Matter, (SOM) - US patent # 6,978,727

This video - demonstration is taking place in a sheep holding paddock below the woolshed in mid summer 2" deep into seriously compacted, rock hard ground (real crowbar stuff). They don't call peg type road rollers "sheepsfoot rollers" for no reason. This soil is totally compacted and 100% structure devoid, yet in spite of this the openers had absolutely no trouble achieving constant depth, soil control and an optimum seed bed/tilth environment at up to 18 kph (in this clip), this is the first set up on linkage of its type in Australia (fully hydraulically activated from the cab) - there are currently quite a few machines (using the SNT openers) now in the hands of contractors that routinely operate/seed into situations like this at speeds up to 45kph. Note - If any kind of so called 'no till' one pass tined device/implement attempted this demonstration in this situation you would have the soil shattering uncontrollably in all directions and you would end up with 'rubble' - any kind of a seedbed would be a non event. A 'v - disc' or 'edge on' disc opener would simply roll along on top. What looks like a lot of 'soil throw'- is not, look closely at the undisturbed ground in between the rows and a week later try to figure out where it has been. This is truly a No Till Soil Control Mechanism. COST - These units/machines are currently built to order by SNT as 'one offs' and are not really in the realms of the average farmers' affordability (contractors machines) for instance - to give you an idea, the units on this machine worked out to $4,500.00 per unit (A$), plus toolbar and front mounted airbox. (The next most expensive units currently on the market in Australia come in at roughly half this price). The purchaser (In this case a farmer, not a contractor) is operating on the basis that "sometimes the purchase price is not the biggest cost" Quite simply 'in life you get what you pay for'

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Science & Technology

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• no till
• planter
• seeder
• direct drilling
• minimum till
• zero till

[youcrayzee]

You forgot to show all the herbicides and DEAD FISH

[specialtynotill]

@youcrayzee - Ooops.

[alisterslocomber]

lol thats more like max till get a cross slot

[specialtynotill]

@alisterslocomber - lol

[justtopissuoff]

have you tested this in moist conditions?

[specialtynotill]

@justtopissuoff - Extensively, These units continue working when when all others are long parked because the tractors can no longer pull them the beauty of these things is they create a tilth/deposit the seed and then pack it all back down in such away that even if there is several inches of rain straight after seed burst is not encountered to any thing like the degree that conventional tines of v-discs provide. Correctly set up they are pretty much impossible to block.

[specialtynotill]

@pleabargain - This video of this machine (still in construction at the time) was into totally dry (mid summer) stock compacted (totally dry) soil.The types of applications where the above applies is dry sowing ahead of the first rain in the autumn we do a lot of this sort of work. The idea is when it does rain the surface crust being broken up/cracked (depending on speed) in the vicinity of the seed/slot allows the water to penetrate exactly where it is wanted instead of running off. Cheers SNT

[farmerallis]

@77farm The point of the video is to show how the openers work....and they are doing a hell of a job. Those openers are pretty amazing.

[jimmbaird]

Yes, that's pretty agressive tilling, at least the t op few inches

[77farm]

no till????????? it's moving more soil than a plough.