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Soil compaction is becoming an increasingly expensive problem for farmers and growers! It costs money to repair, it reduces crop yields and it has many negative impacts on the environment. Wheel loads of over 10 Mg are now irreversibly damaging many soils – our fundamental resource.

But, economics and practicality demand that we use large high output machines. Controlled Traffic Farming (CTF) recognizes these realities and addresses compaction by confining it to the least possible area. It does this by keeping tracks in exactly the same place year in year out.

It's a very simple principle and can be achieved on many different scales and in many different ways, but the outcome is always positive. It is guaranteed to reduce growers' costs and increase their returns.

Information in brief:

This month's story:

Direct drilling spring crops on heavy soils in the UK has never been easy, but could CTF make it routine?

News

14 July 2008

It seems that the future of Galileo, a global navigation system composed of 30 dedicated navigation satellites, has at last been secured.

06 June 2008

We are very pleased to announce that we now have a CTF Europe Representative in Slovakia.

01 April 2008

To those of you interested in wide track vehicle systems we are pleased that John Foxwell has agreed to our reproducing this article on the design of a wide span tractor.