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Tillage after corn harvest (Click for video) Tillage is the agricultural preparation of soil by mechanical agitation of various types, such as digging, stirring, and overturning. Examples of human-powered tilling methods using hand tools include shoveling, picking, mattock work, hoeing, and raking.
Small tilling equipment, used in small gardens such as household gardens and small commercial gardens, can provide both primary and secondary tillage. For example, a rotary tiller does both the "plowing" and the "harrowing", preparing a smooth, loose seedbed. It does not provide the row-wise weed control that cultivator teeth would.
1885; Experimental proof that bacteria can cause plant diseases: Erwinia amylovora and fire blight of apple [1] 1886–1898; Recognition of plant viral diseases: Tobacco mosaic virus [1] 1889; Introduction of hot water treatment of seed for disease control by J. L. Jensen [1]
Irrigation pumps, tillage equipment, chaff cutters, tractors and threshers were gradually introduced for farm mechanization. The high yielding varieties with assured irrigation and higher rate of application of fertilizers gave higher returns that enabled farmers to adopt mechanization inputs, especially after Green revolution in 1960s." [32] [33]
In agriculture, a harrow is a farm implement used for surface tillage. It is used after ploughing for breaking up and smoothing out the surface of the soil. The purpose of harrowing is to break up clods and to provide a soil structure, called tilth, that is suitable for planting seeds.
Bacterial diseases; Bacterial leaf blight and stalk rot: Pseudomonas avenae subsp. avenae. Bacterial leaf spot: Xanthomonas campestris pv. holcicola. Bacterial stalk rot: Enterobacter dissolvens = Erwinia dissolvens: Bacterial stalk and top rot: Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora Erwinia chrysanthemi pv. zeae. Bacterial stripe: Pseudomonas ...
Agricultural equipment is any kind of machinery used on a farm to help with farming. The best-known example of this kind is the tractor . From left to right: John Deere 7800 tractor with Houle slurry trailer, Case IH combine harvester, New Holland FX 25 forage harvester with corn head.
Other similar secondary tillage tine implements or rotary harrows are also widely used. When choosing secondary tillage equipment, soil type as well as soil moisture content at the time must be considered. Lighter secondary disc harrows are primarily used to break down soil clods into smaller pieces.