Fall will be here before you know it, which means it’s time to start thinking about tillage. Ken Ferrie shares two videos explaining how to successfully set and operate your hybrid chisel and ...

Because chisel plows, disk chisels and disk rippers have staggered shanks, they leave a pattern of peaks and valleys of untilled soil beneath the surface. “The peaks should be no closer than 4 ...

Deeper tillage with a plow or chisel is not part of this system. Shallow discing reduces horsepower requirements and allows earlier tillage in wet soil conditions than deep-tillage systems. The amount ...

No-till systems had greater soil microbial biomass and enzymatic activity. Tilled systems that used a chisel plow were equivalent to no-till systems, in terms of microbial biomass.

The most common conservation tillage systems in Indiana use chisel plows, tandem discs, field cultivators and a variety of "one-pass" tools (Figure 1). These systems are also known as "mulch-till" ...

Tillage with a moldboard plow completely turns over the first six to 10 inches of soil, burying most of the residue. A chisel plow, ... "No Till: The Quiet Revolution". Rights & Permissions.

In 2015, we set up field-scale plots at the SHARE Farm. We evaluated (1) shallow vertical tillage, (2) fall strip till with shanks, (3) spring strip till with coulters and (4) fall chisel plow ...