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Jeff Esdaile's Two-Wheel Tractor Newsletter

The Conservation Agriculture Group at Cornell is pleased to host Jeff Esdaile's Two-Wheel Tractor Newsletter. Here you'll find back issues from July 2011 on. Published not necessarily every month, we nonetheless put new issues up as soon as they're received, so check back periodically to see what's new! (Contact Jeff for question about Two-Wheel Tractor content.)

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JUNE 2018 Forthcoming		MAY 2018 Tracked 2WT - a viable option? Converting a 2WT to a 4WT Direct seeding in Laos
JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2018 2WT Review USDA 2WT Research 4WT "Tool Carrier"		OCTOBER 2017 Strip tillage seeder/planter in Bangladesh Eden Equipment planter (S. Africa) New approaches with small 4WT
APRIL/MAY 2017 Tracks for 2WT? 2WT for rice production in Laos Planters in Zimbabwe and S. Africa Mechanical lift systems for 2WT		FEBRUARY 2017 2WT planters in Zimbabwe Mechanisation in Cambodia ATV style trailed planters 2WT two row trailed planter
DECEMBER 2016 "Hello Tractor" 2WTs: Hay balers, boom sprayers Battery Power! Environments issue on CA for Africa		SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2016 Ideas for small farm mechanisation in Sub-Saharan Africa Trailing two wheel planter for 2WT
AUGUST 2016 Survey Results Finger Pick-up Seed Meters Gongli 3 Row Planter		JUNE-JULY 2016 Direct seeding rice in Laos Trailing two wheel planter Progress in Cambodia
APRIL-MAY 2016 Another Zimbabwe 2WT prototype Planter specifications Adjustments and mechanical lifts		JANUARY-MARCH 2016 Working on the CIMMYT Hybrid Thai 2WT Chinese 4WTs in Zimbabwe '
SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 2015 Single- and double-row maize planters		AUGUST 2015 ARC Gongli seed drill in Myanmar Adatping ARC Gongli for Rice Chinese 2WT Attachments
JUNE-JULY 2015 Small Farm Mechanization Thai 1 and 2 Row Planters for 2WT Sawtooth Disc Openers 2WT Drag Racing		MAY 2015 Special Indonesia Issue 2BYF-2 Row Maize Drill ARC Gongli 'Quick' 8.5HP 2WT
MARCH 2015 FACASI meeting Gongli Africa Mark 2 Evaluation ARC Gongli 2WT for rice? Mini Happy Seeder		JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2015 Thesis on 2WT Strip Tillage Blades 3 Wheel Tractors? 2WT Seeders Research and Profitability
DECEMBER 2014 Ndume Push-Pull Planter in Africa ‘Gongli Africa’ Prototype		OCTOBER 2014 More Progress on Seed Drills in China and Africa
SEPTEMBER 2014 Seed Drills in Africa and Asia		AUGUST 2014 Direct Seeding in Laos
JUNE 2014 Chinese Mini-Tractors		MAY 2014 Two-Wheel Tractor No Till Seed Drill
MARCH 2014 Seed Drills		FEBRUARY 2014 Farm mechanization and Conservation Agriculture in East Africa
DECEMBER2013 JEM CA-Seeder (1-row seeder) and the Intermech 2WT seed drill		NOVEMBER 2013 Progress with direct seeding of rice in Laos in 2013
OCTOBER 2013 First two prototypes of 'Gongli Africa' 2WT row crop seed drill built at CAMARTEC in Arusha, Tanzania		AUGUST 2013 The prototype 'Gongli- Africa' seed drill for 2WT for the FACASI project in East Africa
July 2013 FACASI Project; Simple disc opener; Chinese vertical plate spoon type seed meter; Yetter Stalk Devastator		May 2013 Small farm mechanization and conservation agriculture project for East Africa, VMP and seed drill updates
April 2013 Cambodian 12 row drum seeder, powered by a 12HP two wheel tractor for direct seeding in puddled rice fields.		March 2013 Two-wheel tractor for haymaking, agro-tool market mapping in Cambodia, disc opener for 2WT seed drill
February 2013 A look at the Khedut Agro 2WT seed drill from India and a French-made single disc opener.		January 2013 University of Southern Queensland student undertakes two-wheel tractor project this year.
November 2012 Two-wheel tractor seed drill, adding a power take-off (PTO) to a two-wheel tractor.   September 2012 Pictures of a Thai-built two wheel tractor seed drill and information on the Conference for Conservation Agriculture for Smallholders in Asia and Africa (December 2013).		October 2012 Farm Power and Conservation Agriculture: The potential for two-wheel tractors in Sub-Saharan Africa. August 2012 Dual range fluted roller seed meter vs. inclined plate seed meter - which is better value? Also a two-wheel tractor driven potato planter and dry direct seeding of rice.
July 2012 Can we make the tines even thinner to reduce the draft on a 2WT tined seed drill? Is strip tillage really no-till? And on using 2WT as a traction unit on steep slopes.		June 2012 About a visit from the South African Delegation, an improved version of an operator stand, a powered roller/crimper for 2WT, and 2WT races by Siam Kubota.
May 2012 About a visit from the West African Delegation, new CA developments in East Africa, the export of ARC Gongli seed drills, a laser leveller for 2WT, and a Bangladesh-made 2WT potato digger.		March 2012 About a possible ancestor of the 2WT, progress with angled single disc opener, visits to Australia, and whether a newly patented design has a role to play as a disc opener system.
Jan/Feb 2012 About the operation of a device with no-till single and double disc, a harvester for 2WT, and about plate metering and its implements.		Dec 2011 Features several pieces of equipment from Laos including a Siam Kubota 2WT and a two-row Knapik 2WT seed drill from Brazil.
Oct 2011 About demonstrations and exhibitors at the 5th World Congress on Conservation Agriculture in Brisbane, Australia (September 2011).		July 2011 A brief newsletter about the apperance of the 2WT seed drill on national TV in Australia on July 20, 2011, with links.