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Traditional ploughing: a farmer works the land with horses and plough in the UK Water buffalo used for ploughing in Laos. A plough or plow (both pronounced / p l aʊ /) is a farm tool for loosening or turning the soil before sowing seed or planting. [1] Ploughs were traditionally drawn by oxen and horses but modern ploughs are drawn by tractors.
Contour plowing, Pennsylvania, 1938 "Contour bunding", Catalonia, 2007. Contour plowing or contour farming is the farming practice of plowing and/or planting across a slope following its elevation contour lines.
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. "Tillage" can also mean the land that is tilled.
Deep plowing is a plowing to a depth greater than 50 cm (20 in) as compared to ordinary plowing which rarely exceeds 20 cm (8 in). [1] The purpose of deep plowing is to modify the soil water retention characteristics over the long term. [1]
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.
Components of a simple drawn plow: 1) beam; 2) three point hitch; 3) height regulator; 4) coulter (or knife) 5) chisel 6) plowshare 7) moldboard Instrument for cleaning a plowshare used at a mill near Horažďovice, Czech Republic
A farmer using a hoe to keep weeds down in a vegetable garden. A hoe is an ancient and versatile agricultural and horticultural hand tool used to shape soil, remove weeds, clear soil, and harvest root crops.
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 ...