Oil seed Rape Conventional

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Winter Wheat Mintil

Oil Seed Rape Mintil

Winter Wheat Conventional

You will notice in the picture a marked difference between conventional and mintil. All the crops in the conventional photos are ploughed and pulled down with a power harrow and drilled with a combination . Whereas the mintil but prepared and drilled with the minimum of operations .

( This appears to be Defra’s approved way to produce cheap food in the UK )

Farming Pictures

David Ploughing—Summer 2004

Gary Combining Summer-2005

Before

After

Gary Combining Summer-2005

Agrovista Demonstration   Plots 08/10/2006

Power harrowing ploughed land for seedbed

(Left) Picture taken early April shows L to R Astrid, Expert, Celebration, No name dwarf variety and Castile,                         (Right) 24th December 2006 shows 16 varieties of wheat, part of the Agrovista demonstration