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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.
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News

13 May 2009

Newsletter: CTF and Conservation Agriculture, CTF in vegetable production / Nyhedsbrev: Faste kørespor og direkte såning, Faste kørespor og grøntsager.

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07 May 2009

DA/EN Tool to calculate tracked area - Nyt beregningsværktøj til at beregne overkørt areal - Agrotech has develloped a tool, in which we can quickly calculate the tracked and the uncropped area based on dimensions of the machines on a farm.

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11 February 2009

EN/DA Videos: NoTill drills / Såmaskiner til direkte såning.

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12 January 2009

Temadag om GPS og autostyring på Forskningscenter Foulum mandag 2 februar.

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This month's story:

We featured potato and onion production with controlled traffic farming earlier this year. This is an update following harvest of the potatoes, both on a commercial and a research farm

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This Month's Photo

CTF has been maintained (just!) for two years on this research site where potatoes
			were preceded by onions

CTF was established on this research site in June 2008. Potatoes were planted in November 2008 and harvested in March 2009. Come to our field day in the UK on 29 June (see calendar) where you can meet the growers and researchers involved and follow the story above to find out more

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Calendar

15-19 June, 2009. ISTRO triennial conference,
Izmir, Turkey

CTF Working Group meeting

21-23 June, 2009, CTF Workshop, Denmark
CTF solutions for intensive vegetable and root crop production

29 June 2009. CTF & No Till Field Day
Farm walk on land in Lincolnshire, UK that has been in No Till and a CTF system since 2005

Links

CTF Solutions

John Dale Drills

Australian CTF Association

Farming Futures, UK

Conservation Agriculture

Grains R&D Corporation

CTF Research

GRDC Research Summaries

CTF Case Study

DARCOF Newsletter

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