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Contour ploughing mitigates soil erosion by ploughing across a slope, along elevation lines. Alternatives to ploughing, such as a no-till method, have the potential to build soil levels and humus. These may be suitable for smaller, intensively cultivated plots and for farming on poor, shallow or degraded soils that ploughing would further degrade.
No-till farming (also known as zero tillage or direct drilling) is an agricultural technique for growing crops or pasture without disturbing the soil through tillage.No-till farming decreases the amount of soil erosion tillage causes in certain soils, especially in sandy and dry soils on sloping terrain.
Primary tillage such as ploughing tends to produce a rough surface finish, whereas secondary tillage tends to produce a smoother surface finish, such as that required to make a good seedbed for many crops. Harrowing and rototilling often combine primary and secondary tillage into one operation.
Contour ploughing orients furrows following the contour lines of the farmed area. Furrows move left and right to maintain a constant altitude, which reduces runoff.Contour plowing was practiced by the ancient Phoenicians for slopes between two and ten percent. [4]
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.
A steam ploughing engine. In the days when steam ploughing was common, the engine would often remain on the headland and pull the plough across the field by a wire rope.There would be severe compaction of the headland but little compaction of the rest of the field.
Goat Cheese, Pecan, and Mixed Green Salad. This premade salad consists of mixed greens, pecans, dried cranberries, bell peppers, tomatoes, red onions, and goat cheese with a honey vinaigrette. The ...
7th-century coulter used in ploughing. Its earliest design consisted of a knife-like blade. [3] [1] In 2011 an early medieval coulter was excavated from a site in Kent, England. [4] [5] Coulters using a flat rotating disc began being used c. 1900. [6] [1] Its advantage was a smoothly cut bank, and it sliced plant debris to the width of the ...