this study was conducted to investigate the effect of soil moisture content in primary tillage and travel speed during disking operation on the performance of an offset disk harrow in a silty clay loam soil. at first, the effect of three soil moisture content ranges of (12-14), (14-16) and (16-18) percent (dry basis) on soil clod size (left from moldboard plowing) was investigated. then, the pe...

Long-term tillage negatively affects soil aggregation, but little is known about the short-term effects of tillage. We investigated the effects of intensive tillage (moldboard plowing) and conservation tillage (chisel plowing) on aggregate breakage during tillage in a long-term study located in the semiarid Ebro river valley (NE Spain). The type of tillage resulted in different soil aggregate d...

The excessive application of manure on cropland areas can cause nutrients to accumulate near the soil surface and increase nutrient transport by overland flow. Inverting soils with high surface nutrient content could reduce runoff nutrient transport. This study was conducted to measure the effects of moldboard plowing on the redistribution of nutrients within the soil profile and nutrient trans...

the effects of soil tillage methods and residue management were studied at miandoab agriculure station during 2003-2005. the experiment design was split block with the main plots devoted to residual management strategies (burning residue, crushing residue by disk, no treatment). subplots were tillage methods (moldboard plowing to 20-25 cm in fall, moldboard plowing to 20-25 cm in spring, moldbo...

the aim of this research was to investigate performance of two combined plows compared to conventional plow. the experiments were conducted in a loamy soil texture with moisture content of 16-18% in karaj region of iran. combination of moldboard+chisel plow and disk plow+chisel plow were compared with conventional moldboard plow as three treatments. data was statistically analyzed using rcbd in...