“Or switch to a chisel plow or disk ripper.” The later you do vertical tillage, the tighter the ... must be dry for shattering and building the ridge, and that usually occurs right after ...

Many combinations of tillage methods are available for corn and soybean production. Currently much of the primary tillage is done in the fall. Deep tillage with the moldboard plow is still common, but ...

For decades, moldboard plows, disks and field cultivators, all horizontal tillage tools, have been the go-tos for fieldwork. That’s changing as fears about climate change come into focus.