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Row-Crop Soil Compaction Profiles - Implications for Reduced Tillage Tool Design

Chuck Bulik, James W. Rumsey

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Quantitative descriptions are presented for soil compaction profiles in two commercial fields and one experimental field of processing tomatoes. An experimental three-pass reduced tillage system was compared with an eight pass conventional tillage system for postharvest compaction profiles. The reduced tillage system reduced soil compaction to a greater extent than conventional tillage in both the traffic furrows and the cropping zone beds.

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Key concepts: Tillage, Compaction, Soil compaction, Environmental science, Agronomy, Strip-till, Minimum tillage, Postharvest