Manufacturing and Engineering Magazine Volume 425 - January 2016 | Page 44

MANUFACTURING & ENGINEERING DALE DRILLS

REVOLUTIONARY
EFFICIENCY
dale drills are renowned for their excellent contour
following, accurate seed placement and low power requirement

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Formerly a manual labouring task,
crop farming now bears little
resemblance to its ancestry and,
with the development of sowing
machines and subsequent technologies, has become infinitely more sophisticated. Placing keen emphasis on the environment and soil health, while innovating at
an extraordinary rate, Dale Drills continues
to make its mark on the landscape.
Proudly heralding from its Lincolnshire
home, Dale Drills specialises in the manufacture of direct drills for use in the agricultural
industry. Revolutionising the sector at its
inception, the company has since produced a
range of versatile drills which are capable of
drilling in direct, min-till and conventional

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seedbeds. Establishing a reputation for excellence in contour following, seed placement
accuracy and efficiency, the company's drills
also pose minimal disruption to soil beds, and
Dale Drills actively promotes efficient farming.
With a view to mitigating crop farming's
high production costs, Dale Drills has actively
tried to reduce the resources it takes to yield
the same crop – be that in chemicals, fuel or
fertilisers – in order to pass that saving on to
customers, and they to theirs. It required a
radical rethinking of seed drill technology, as
Tom Dale, Managing Director of Dale Drills
illustrates: “For a traditional plough-based system, which necessitates maximum cultivation,
you're spending a tremendous amount of
money on machines, men to operate those

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