Abstract
A tillage study was conducted on a Hubbard loamy sand soil in central Minnesota. Tillage regimens included moldboard plowing followed by a furrow press type packer, chisel plowing, no-till or direct planting and ridge planting. All operations were conducted in the spring for corn and soybeans grown in rotation on irrigated 47 m by 15 m plots. A compacted layer, mean cone index 2200 kPa, exists at a depth of 24 cm for the moldboard plow, no-till and ridge regimens, possibly as a result of the previous years' moldboard plowing. Yield differences were not attributed to the compacted layer measured in the wheel track spaces between rows.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 389-392 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| State | Published - Mar 1986 |
