Direct drilling into stubbles with the Happy Seed (2006)

Humphreys, E  Blackwell, J  Sidhu, H  Malkeet-Singh, Sarbjeet-Singh,  Manpreet-Singh,  Yadvinder-Singh, Anderson, L

2006

The Happy Seeder technology offers a solution to the problem of direct drilling into heavy stubbles, enabling the stubble to be retained on the surface as a mulch.  The rapid development of the technology, from concept to commercial reality in four years, has resulted from synergies between Australian and Indian engineers and scientists.  The Happy Seeder technology needs to be evaluated for a wide range of cropping systems – after one season's testing in Australia, it is thought that the Turbo Happy Seeder may be more appropriate for heavy rice stubbles.