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Innovative Soil Opening
TechnologiesRevolutionising farming
© Rob Borland 2009
Rob Borland MScRes, IEng IAgrE
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Contents
• ISOT vs Current Methods & Technologies
• ISOT’s Benefits to Customers
• Summary
• Atmospheric CO2 Reduction Potential
• Food for Thought
• Definition of Terms
• Information Sources
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Conventional Agriculture285hp @ 2m/s
= 81.4hp/m
= 25.9lt/ha (3.5m x 2857m)
=67.9kg CO2/ha
Train Mass
11.7t + 2.6t = 14.3t
= 4.1t/m
280hp @ 2m/s
= 46.6hp/m
= 14.9lt/ha (6m x 1666.6m)
= 38.9kg CO2/ha
Train Mass
11.7t + 2.9t = 14.6t
= 2.4t/m
200hp @ 2m/s
= 33.3hp/m
= 10.6lt/ha (6m x 1666.6m)
= 27.8kg CO2/ha
Train Mass
11.7t + 9.44t = 21.14t
= 3.5t/m
765hp
= 161hp/m
= 51.4lt/ha
= 134.6kg CO2/ha
Traffic Mass
= 10t/m
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Minimum Tillage Agriculture
450hp @ 2m/s
= 75hp/m
= 23.9l/ha (6m x 1666.6m)
=64.3kg CO2/ha
Train Mass
43t + 11.8t = 44.8t
= 7.5t/m
450hp @ 2m/s
= 24.5hp/m
= 7.8l/ha (18.35m x 545m)
=20.4kg CO2/ha
Train Mass
43t + 14.8t = 47.8t
= 2.6t/m
900hp
= 99.5hp/m
= 31.7l/ha
=84.8kg CO2/ha
Traffic Mass
10.1t/m
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Current Zero-Tillage Agriculture
(Disc Drill)
300hp @ 2m/s
= 50hp/m
= 15.9l/ha (6m x 1666.6m)
= 41.7kg CO2/ha
Continuous Mass applied
per Opener = 250kg
Train Mass
12.4t + 8.2t = 20.6t
= 3.4t/m
300hp
= 50hp/m
= 15.9l/ha
= 41.7kg CO2/ha
Traffic Mass
= 3.4t/m
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Current Zero-Tillage Agriculture
(Tined Drill)
450hp @ 2m/s
= 24.5hp/m
= 7.8l/ha (18.35m x 545m)
=20.4kg CO2/ha
Train Mass
43t + 14.8t = 47.8t
= 2.6t/m
450hp @ 2m/s
= 24.5hp/m
= 7.8l/ha
=20.4kg CO2/ha
Traffic Mass
= 2.6t/m
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Zero-Tillage with ISOT
216hp
= 18hp/m
= 5.7lt/ha
= 15kg CO2/ha
Traffic Mass
11.7t + 4t = 15.7t
= 1.3t/m
216hp @ 2m/s
= 18hp/m
= 5.7lt/ha (12m x 833.3m)
= 15kg CO2/ha
Max Mass per Opener
= 20kg
Train Mass
11.7t + 4t = 15.7t
= 1.3t/m
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Comparison Table for all Operations to
Establish a Crop
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120
140
160
180
Hp/m lt/ha CO2/ha t/m
Conventional
Min-Till
Zero-Till (Disc)
Zero-Till (Tine)
ISOT
@ 2.62kg/lt
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Comparison Table on Planting
Operations Only
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10
15
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25
30
35
40
45
50
Hp/m lt/ha CO2/ha t/m
Conventional
Min-Till
Zero-Till (Disc)
Zero-Till (Tine)
ISOT
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Power / Meter Used between
Draught and PTO
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60
70
80
90
Hp
/m
Hp/m used by PTO
Hp/m used by Draught
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ISOT’s Benefits
It’s Seriously Green
• Reduces fuel usage
• Small Carbon Footprint
• Promotes C02 sequestration into the soil
• Less material in manufacturing
• Long working life
• End of life recycling
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It’s Economic
• Up to 80% reduced fuel usage
• Higher crop yields
• Adaptable to different crops, climate &
soils
• Usage in ploughed & zero-tillage fields
• Easy maintenance
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It’s High Performance
• It out performs all current planters & drills
• Accurate seed placement
• 5 – 30 km/hr planting speed
• Plants into fields with heavy vegetative
covers
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It’s a Revolution in Soil Opening
Technology
• Will change the way crops are planted
• Upgradeable & updateable for years to come
• Can be used in commercial & subsistence agriculture
• Low draught requirement thus soil compaction can be significantly reduced, possibly to negligible levels
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Summary
• The ISOT is far superior to all directly competing, current planters in both conventional and conservation agriculture.
• ISOT is a disruptive technology and has the potential to make a sizeable, positive impact in the Agricultural Industry.
• ISOT is also suitable for subsistence agriculture where animal and human draught power is used.
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Atmospheric CO2 Reduction Potential
• There are 1.365 billion hectares of land under
agricultural food production.
• CO2 Mitigation rate with zero-tillage is between 0.07 &
1.27tonnes C / ha / year.
• If half the world’s land were converted to zero-tillage
between 48 million & 866 million tonnes / year of Carbon
could be sequestered into the soil.
• This is equivalent to 175.68 million tonnes to 3.167
billion tonnes of CO2 / year.
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Atmospheric CO2 Reduction Potential
• Conventional Agriculture emits 134.6kg CO2/ha
• Zero-tillage with ISOT emits 15kg CO2/ha
• Difference is 119.6kg CO2/ha
• Net CO2 emission reduction, from planting operations alone, if half the world
converted to zero-tillage = 81.63 million tonnes per year at only one planting
per year. Many countries in the tropics have two plantings per year.
• Ploughing also increases CO2 emissions from the soil, zero-tillage reverses
this.
• Ploughing requires high levels of artificial fertilisers to be applied to crops,
zero-tillage in many cases does not require any extra fertilisers or otherwise
considerably less due to the healthier soils.
• Zero-tillage eliminates run off in the field, thus any fertilisers or chemicals
applied stay in the field and do not end up in the local watercourses where
they cause major pollution and environmental disruption.
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Food for Thought
• From a comprehensive study done by the
International Soil Reference and Information
Centre in 1991, “mankind has degraded more
than 7.5million square miles (1.943 billion ha) of
land. An area the size of the United States and
Canada combined.”
• Zero-tillage or Conservation Agriculture can help
to reverse this process.
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Definition of Terms
• Hp – Horsepower. The amount of power produced by an engine measured at the flywheel which is power available to do work. It is also used to define the minimum amount of power required to operate an implement.
• M/s – Metres per second. Ground speed of the tractor and implement train.
• Hp/m – Horsepower per metre. Total tractor power required to operate implements divided by the working width of the implement. This figure accurately indicates how much power is consumed per metre of soil being tilled, in total and by each type of operation.
• lt/ha – Litres per hectare. The amount of fuel that the tractors will burn in each field operation and in total per hectare of land worked in order to establish a sown field.
• CO2/ha – Carbon dioxide per hectare. The amount of CO2 emitted by the tractor engines burning diesel. For every litre of diesel burnt 2.62kg of CO2is emitted.
• t/m – tonnes per metre. The total weight of the tractor and implements divided by the working width of the implement. This figure gives a basic idea as to how much traffic a field has to endure in order that a crop can be sown. The more traffic mass per metre there is the more likely hood of there being compaction problems, although it is not quite as simple as this.
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Information Sources
• CO2 sequestration figures – Paper written by
Thomas Gaiser et al, University of Bonn;
Modelling carbon sequestration under zero-
tillage at the regional scale. 1. The effect of soil
erosion.
• CO2 emission figures – manufactures product
details and farming data sources
• Soil degradation – ISRIC via National
Geographic Magazine September 2008 issue.
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