Cross Slot vs 750a super spring special

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Unfortunately spring hasn't really sprung yet, but hopefully it will soon. Regardless, here is the latest tiller count data from the drill trial. Same old same old.Screen Shot 2016-05-02 at 21.00.12If you've read recent posts here you will know about the drone I've bought. It may have had a slight altercation with a tree, putting it out of action for the time being, but before that I made a map of the drill trial field. Here it is, along with some more photos taken the same day, but from a somewhat lower altitude. You can click on any of them to get larger versions.Here is a large version of the whole field photo. Aside from the different drill areas, which will be explained in the next picture, you can see in the top left quadrant a zigzag darker line where we did not spray any Pacifica (a herbicide for killing grassweeds). Alo in the bottom left you can see the remains of some sort of Roman or bronze age settlement.I tried, and failed, to make some sort of clever overlay of this info on the previous image. The blue section is the Cross Slot area, the red is 750a. Everything else is CO8. The 750a area is very obviously different to the other two, which are indistinguishable. From this perspective the crop looks pretty ropey, so I went down to ground level and took the following photos, the locations of which are also marked on this image1 - CO8. Looks much better from the ground!2 - Cross Slot. Looks similar to CO8, not surprising given that all the numbers match up too3 - The Cross Slot / 750a seam. There was a little bit of overlap between the drills here, so the difference is not as apparent as I thought it would be4 - 750a. Slightly less ground visible, but the difference seems much smaller down here compared to from the drone5 - 750a / CO8 seam. Not a very good comparison because of the coincidental tramline it landed in. Still - not a massive difference thoughSo there we have it. Until next time.

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