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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

15 August 2008

Today Andrew Manfield of Manfield and Knapton elatedly put CTF in place on his farm, autosteering his Case 6 m CT5080 harvester in arrow straight lines during harvesting of oilseed rape.

30 July 2008

Australia in the news – CTF Solutions helps achieve RTK delivery through Virtual Reference Stations and reports on the role of CTF in combating soil erosion.