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see plowplow
or plough,
agricultural implement used to cut furrows in and turn up the soil, preparing it for planting. The plow is generally considered the most important tillage tool.
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The unit's exclusive multi-radius, involute mouldboard lets it move more material with fewer horsepower and less fuel than its competitors.
Soil Adhesion Preventing Mechanism of Bionic Buldozing Plates and Mouldboard Ploughs.
In the following chapters we are going to present the result of five-year alternative soil tillage with chisel plough and mouldboard ploughing on horizontal resistance of the soil and the CO2 emissions from the soil on a silty clay loam soil (Gleyic Podzoluvisol) under Slovenian agro-ecological conditions.
2011) Implementation of chiselling and mouldboard ploughing in soil after 8 years of no-till management in SW, Spain: Effect on soil quality.
However, the surface morphology of the head of dung beetle was selected for modification of bulldozing plates and mouldboard plough surfaces.
In this regard, profile inversion could be recommended using a mouldboard plough and hence increase the soil reactivity.
1]) for basic soil preparation with mouldboard plough and harrow, 32 % (59.
1991) produced similar results in a study evaluating residue distribution throughout the profile, comparing disc, chisel and mouldboard ploughs.
Getting mouldboard ploughing right, the advantage of an expensive herbicide strategy and how not to narrow windrow burn are just some of the initial learnings from a long-term trial in southern Victoria s high rainfall zone.
Qaisrani (1993) and Tong (1992) found that spherical convexes made from Ultra High Molecular Weight--Poly Ethylene (UHMW-PE) reduced the adhesive forces and improved the scouring properties of bionic bulldozing plates and mouldboard ploughs.
Mouldboard ploughing coupled with crop residue removal is the traditional method used by the farmers.
Around the same time, the two-field system was replaced by the more intensive three field rotation, and the primitive ard plough was replaced by the productive mouldboard.