Controlled Traffic Farming Links
This page features links to various websites with information related to controlled traffic farming:
CTF Sites CTF Videos Agronomy Sites Soils Sites CTF Economics
Equipment – Drills and General Equipment – Fabrication, wheel kits, extensions
Equipment – Guidance Equipment – Toolbars, Openers, Applicators
Controlled Traffic Farming sites
Controlled Traffic Farming - Final Report, Nuffield Study Tour - Steve Lacroque's comprehensive report on what he learned on CTF benefits and implementation worldwide and in Alberta, Canada.
Controlled Traffic Farming - CTF Solutions - Australia - Private company. Lots of free info and ‘how to‘ manuals for sale)
Tramline farming systems: technical manual. Webb, B., Blackwell, P., Riethmuller, G. and Lemmon, J. 2004. Bulletin 4607 ISSN 1448-0352. Department of Agriculture Western Australia, GRDC Project DAW 718.
Controlled Traffic Farming – UK/Europe – information, FAQs, case studies
Australian CTF Association – lots of good reading and links
Australian CTF family run site
Controlled Traffic Farming Queensland, Australia
GRDC - Controlled traffic farming - Road beds and root beds
Farming the Mallee with Guidance – Victoria, Australia report
Precision Agriculture – Australian site with variable rate, guidance, mapping and CTF info
Dr. Jeff Tullberg 1998 Australian CTFconference report - dated
The Michell Farm - CTF in USA
Southern Farming Systems - Controlled Traffic Site at Shelford – high rainfall area in Australia
Row Cropping
Controlled Traffic Farming: A Winner in the Wet - see how Australian farmer Peter Walsh's CTF system helped out in the extremely wet 2010 harvest
CTF videos
Year 2 of controlled trafic farming - Morrin site tour - Peter Gamache
Year 2 of controlled traffic farming - interview with Steve Larocque
CTF in Alberta at harvest - interview with Steve Larocque
CTF in action in Alberta - interview with Steve Larocque
CTF Alberta July 29 field day near Morrin
Video The Mitchell Farm
Yields-Small Grain Solutions
YouTube - Controlled Traffic System (4.0 metres)
YouTube - Field Bin Usage in Australia
YouTube - Harvest on The Mitchell Farm
YouTube - Inter-Row Spraying Sorghum
YouTube - New Holland Mähdrescher CR9090 OptiSpread ( Aktive Strohverteilung )
YouTube - Reichhardt PSR Sonic Sensor Guided Steering
YouTube - Semeato Pneumatic System
YouTube - Harvesting on Controlled Traffic with hopper on chaser bin
Agronomy sites
Reduced Tillage Linkages – direct seeding, no-till information
Beyond Agronomy News – subscription based - 42 times/yr – Agronomist/consultant Steve Larocque’s agronomic info for Alberta.
No-Till on the Plains Leading Edge Journal of No-till Agriculture Subscription based – good articles on no-till, precision ag, rooting, compaction etc.
Exapta Solutions – extensive no-till info and equipment
Grains Research and Development Corporation (Australia)
Kondinin Group Farming Ahead
Inter-row weed control - Australian results
Birchip Cropping Group – Victoria, Australia – no-till, row spacing and many other publications
No-till Wheat Yields – Needham Ag tips
Soils sites
Soil compaction - Minnesota site – good reading
GRDC deep ripping factsheet – good reading
South Australian soil structure module
Alkaline Soils Group - Australia
Mapping Soils With a Penetrometer Wisconsin
Compaction of 'heavy' soils by cropping traffic and estimated benefits of tramline farming
Soil Compaction: Causes, Concerns and Cures – Wisconsin Extension Bulletin A3367 – good information
Economics
CTF Australian economics calculator – see calculator pages
Equipment – Drills and General
Australia’s Farming and Agriculture Directory
Gessner Industries - Agricultural Equipment
Salford – seeding and fertilizing
Great Plains No-till Drills
Momosem – Precision vacuum planter
Pillar Lasers Inc. – New generation Barton opener and tool bar
Ezee-On 3 meter CTF Quad Axle for 3000 and 4000 Series Air Cart
Morris 2 or 3 meter track Air Cart for CTF
Equipment – Fabrication, wheel kits, extensions
Adjustable Track Tractor for Zero Compaction Farming
John Deere controlled traffic spacer extension kits
John Deere 8345RT axle extension kits
Stevenson Wheel – wheels and rims
Header Equipment John Deere & MidWest Fabrication Pty Ltd
Wheel hub extensions - Unverferth wheel products
Tractor extensions – C&C Machining and Engineering - Australia manufacturer of extension kits
Stewart Steel - Agricultural – combine auger extension kits
Equipment – Guidance
AgRobotics - Home of The AutoProbe
All traffic runs in the same lanes auto-guidance keeps equipment on precise paths. Goliath Business News
escholarship Weeds accurately mapped using DGPS and ground-based vision identification
Farm Industry News video Implement steering from Trimble
Garford Farm Machinery
HGCA - Cost-effective weed control in cereals using vision guided inter-row hoeing and band spraying systems
THT Past Projects – guidance and vision technology
Reichhardt Electronic Innovations Reichhardt Electronic Innovations
SpringerLink - Book Chapter – weed recognition
AGROCOM Vision – guidance and auto-steering
Tillett and Hague Technology Ltd Home
Prairie Precision Network - builds, maintains, and broadcasts network RTK corrections to a large area of Agricultural Alberta and Saskatchewan
Equipment – Toolbars, Openers, Applicators
Fertilizer Opener - Fertilizer Coulter
Low-disturbance NH3 Openers NH3 applicators
Moore built Toolbars
Row Crop Cultivators and Planter Toolbars Wil-Rich
Twelve-inch shielded sprayer - 02-08-2007
Twin Diamond Industries - Testimonials
Needham Ag Technologies – agronomy and equipment solutions for no-till
Amity – tramline system for spraying
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