Just as there are many ways to skin a cat, there are many ways to direct drill a crop. French firm Novag relies on a system that comprises a disc opener with coulter shoes on either side, like an inverted T. Among other things, this coulter arrangement counteracts hair-pinning, where organic material is pushed into the furrow created by the disc and prevents the seed achieving adequate soil contact.
We were in the field with a T-Force Plus 450CT. The T-Force Plus is Novag’s only drill range to date, with the ‘4’ indicating the working width of 4.0 metres and the ‘50’ standing for the current fifth generation. The ‘CT’, in
