Claydon Opti-Till®
to reduce establishment costs and improve yields.
Claydon Opti-Till® 
Claydon Opti-Till® 
With increasing financial and environmental pressures on farmers and growers around the world,
could now be the time to change your thinking on how to establish your crops?
At Claydon, we are not just providing farm machinery — we are revolutionising farming with
smarter, more sustainable solutions. Take a fresh look with THINK CHANGE — let Claydon help you FARM SMARTER.
At Claydon, we offer innovative agricultural machinery across different product categories to maximise your farming productivity and soil health. Our market leading products save farmers and growers thousands of pounds every year, providing affordable, modern farm machinery solutions for sustainable crop establishment. Our machines for seed drilling improve soil aeration with minimal soil disturbance and create the precise environment that young plants need for fast germination and strong growth. Our stubble management and weed control machines offer a mechanical means to perfectly prepare seedbeds for sowing.
OUR PRODUCTS
We offer a wide range of high-performance farming machinery, including the Evolution M-Mounted Drills and Hybrid T-Trailed Seed Drills for efficient seeding and fertilising or choose the Straw Harrow, TerraStar, and TerraBlade for effective solutions in stubble management, weed control, and soil preparation.
The new Claydon Evolution tractor-mounted seed drill range takes affordable farm machinery to the next level. It builds on the company’s 20+ years of experience with this technology, featuring the time-proven leading tine technique, and combines it with new operational functionality to enhance direct drill seeder performance.
This combined seed drill allows farmers to drill directly into stubble, min-tilled or ploughed land while applying fertiliser in the same pass in a choice of locations. A comprehensive range of options is available on this trailed range for every drilling scenario.
The Claydon Straw Harrow provides high-output straw management and weed control with minimal soil movement. This essential and versatile farm and groundcare implement is a multi-purpose implement for controlling slugs and creating tilth to support optimal seedbed preparation.
The TerraBlade inter-row hoe is a low cost, mechanical method of controlling weeds in combinable band-sown crops. The use of this machinery in agriculture reduces the potential for carry-over into subsequent crops.
The Claydon mounted mole drainer is manoevrable and user friendly. It creates drainage channels in heavy clay soils to aid field drainage.
For more information on any of our farm machinery, please get in touch by completing our contact form and one of our advisors will be in touch.
A farming family
The Claydon family have farmed the heavy clay land of Suffolk since the early 1900s. Jeffrey and Frank Claydon are the third generation to farm the land now under the E.T. Claydon and Sons family partnership name. The brothers started out in 1970 and still farm the land today. The manufacturing side of the business began in 1981, when Claydon Yield-o-Meter was established to sell its yield monitoring system.
Claydon machines are developed on a working farm by farmers for farmers. All of our cutting-edge farm machinery is truly tried and tested in real farming conditions in a real farm environment before they are brought to market. Our focus on agricultural machinery provides innovative solutions that enhance soil health while supporting sustainable farming practices.
We are also committed to conservation farming, helping farmers improve yields while maintaining the long-term health and productivity of their land. We don’t just listen to the end user – we are the end user.
David Hankey County Durham
The Claydon Hybrid is very versatile and has created a much improved, more open soil structure which is much better able to support the weight of following machinery. The land walks so much better now and has become almost self-healing.
Toby Saunders Northamptonshire
In the first year the Claydon drill saved us 30,000 litres of fuel compared with our previous system. At 70 pence per litre that alone represented a saving of £21,000, but there were numerous other immediate benefits in terms of timeliness, time saving, better crops and much lower costs.
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Andrew Day Hampshire
The Claydon System buys us time on our difficult ground and the main advantage for us is the speed and efficiency of the system. We can comfortably drill 32-40ha in a day. Given our steep banks, stones and some fiddly fields that’s a decent rate, and far more than we could achieve with the plough.
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The Claydon Opti-Till® System is a holistic approach to crop establishment which maximises yield potential and improves soil health while reducing costs.
When you experience the Claydon system of establishing crops, you'll realise just how beneficial loving your soil can be.
Hear what our customers have to say about their experiences with establishing crops using Claydon Opti-Till.
If you are ready to change the way you farm with innovative, sustainable and dependable machinery, contact us NOW!
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