“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 ...

This often results in a yield advantage for moldboard plow systems on poorly drained soils. With soybean residue at the surface, or an elevated row area with ridge-till, there is less difference ...

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.