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For over 170 years, A.T. Cross has been producing luxury pens, executive pencil sets, and high quality gifts. Shop our ultra-sleek and modern writing instruments, engraved styluses, padfolios, reading. Cross Slot is a proven No-Till planting technology used successfully in over 20 countries around the world, 10 states and Canada. The planters are now being manufactured in Appleton WI for the North and South American markets.

Cross Slot No-Tillage Systems

Cross Slot is the only known no-tillage technology and system in the world that arose from extensive, independent, published and peer-reviewed biological research.

Cross Slot drills can increase crop yield. Tractors and combine harvesters can not!

Benefits

Yield depressions are rare - even in the first year

Yield increases are very likely - as new management skills are mastered

Reduces fuel use - by 50-75% (25-50% compared with minimum tillage)

Reduces labour - by up to 60%

Reduces time in the tractor seat by up to 50%

Reduces costs - by up to 50%

More hectares can be farmed with the same resources (= more profit)

Alternatively, more time is available for management or leisure

Machinery replacement and maintenance are less frequent

Reduces soil erosion wind and water

Stones are not brought to the surface they are progressively buried

Equipment breakages in stony soils are rare during tillage they are frequent

Reduces soil moisture loss - each tillage operation can loose 12-25 mm of water

Reduces irrigation frequency

Capital cost is similar to tillage but operating costs are much less

Builds soil organic matter tillage depletes organic matter

Reduces CO2 emissions into the atmosphere by several fold

Reduces soil compaction

Increases soil trafficability machinery and stock

Enables earlier grazing of new pastures from reduced treading and pulling damage

Cross Slot drills build the drill you need. No other no-tillage technology has ever out-performed Cross Slot!

Proven results on the farm from a unique partnership of biological science and engineering

Benefits

Features several world-first functions that are simply not available elsewhere

Is recognized as state-of-the-art by international authorities

Creates horizontal slots only no-tillage opener to do so most others are vertical

Creates true low-disturbance no-tillage by replacing residues over the slot

Harnesses both liquid and vapour soil water to almost guarantee seedling emergence

Self-adjusts downforce to match soil hardness, thus maintaining seeding depth & cover

Is virtually unblockable in most residues, even by the heaviest yielding crops

Eliminates almost all hairpinning problems

Greatly reduces risks - biological, mechanical and financial

Bands fertilizer close to the seed with virtually no risk of seed burn

Outstanding crop & pasture yield responses up to 50%

Needs only a 1 - 4% yield response to justify its cost compared with cheaper options

NZ owners consistently report 95%+ success rates with crops and pastures

Is the result of 30 years of internationally-published scientific research

Is designed in NZ, which has some of the most varied farming conditions in the world

Was designed by identifying and eliminating the failings of other no-tillage machines

Cross Slot Corn

Leaves stones buried not all no-tillage drills do this

Most functions are self-adjusting reducing dependency on skilled operators

Is deliberately robust to handle rough and steep surfaces without breakage

Operates well on slopes up to 45º

Has a minimum 10,000 hour (10 year) design life (similar to tractors)

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