Tillage: Modern cultivators to replace moldboard plowing

The videos at the bottom indicated this generation of cultivators is even worse than mouldboard planning because they create an even more shallow hard pan. Also, traditional discing is bad because it also creates a hard pan. I notice that both of the farmer You Tube channels have switched from the disc to vertical tillage this year. Even with vertical tillage, some still think no tillage is better. I read an article that five weeds have become resistant to Roundup --- the herbicide that made no-till feasible in the first place. But the article did not indicate the geographic range of the weeds. So it is going to take a lot more work to sort out the history of tillage. Thus this remains a growing reference post.

Another trend that is happening is planting a cover crop in the Fall. Some rye's evidently have very deep roots that help "till" the soil without breaking up the little clumps of dirt that you want in the soil.


Trip 20141013 has what John Deere now calls a cultivator.

CaseIH posted

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For my future reference:

double folding 43' secondary tillage implement

Video of a 65' cultivator operating at 4.5" depth. It has an aerial view that shows how he handles an irregular shaped field.

chisel plowing with a Versatile 1150

Chisel plowing with a New Holland.

Don't till: 1 2
Do vertical til: 1




I may have some of these videos and other posts, but I'm saving them here in case I don't. Or maybe I just watched them and didn't know where to put them.