—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 25,1978
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IH engineer tells Young Farmers of tillage alternatives
LANCASTER - Eldon A.
Harden, product engineer
for moldboard and subsoil
chisel plows at International
Harvester’s Engineering
Center in Hinsdale, HI. told
members attending the
Pennsylvania Young Far
mer’s Eighteenth Annual
Convention, here recently,
there are three basic reasons
for the emergence of a great
variety of tillage practices
over the past few years.
“The basics used for
determining which tillage
method you might use will
come from one of or all of
these three reasons. They
are money, time and con
servation,” Harden said
during an educational
workshop he conducted at
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The farmer must often
time choose for himself
whuh factoi n ore im
portant to him m a given
situation. “Considering
money, time and con
servation, all three cannot
be satisfied with one set type
of tillage year after year. A
farmer today must use a
combination of methods and
equipment most practical to
fulfill his needs,” Harden
said.
You must decide what type
tillage will result m the
greatest profit, if that is your
major goal, he said. When
you are in a hurry and time
is most important, in most
cases you can expect a little
less yield and conservation
is not given much con
sideration. When soil con
servation is given the con
sideration it deserves, time
and money become secon
dary, Harden said.
Harden then discussed
some of the equipment being
used today to perform
common tillage practices
such as “no-till’ whereby
most often a colter on the
front of the planter opens the
ground for seeding and a
heavy press wheel behind
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the planter firms the seed.
Another good conservation
method is shallow or full
width tillage whereby the
area to be planted is worked
to a depth of four to six in
ches with sides, field
cultivators or wide sweeps,
leaving at least half the
trash from the previous crop
on top of the ground, he said.
The relatively new subsoil
chiseling method is used to
break up hard pan and loos
en the soil to a greater than
normal depth for better root
development and plant
growth. It is made more
practical in Pennsylvania by
a new subsoil chisel that has
a safety trip similar, to the
automatic moldboard plow
trip, allowing for deep tillage
work in rocky soil, he said.
Harden concluded by
pointing out that the
moldboard plow is the oldest
and still the most popular
means of tillage. “It is being
used to produce the highest
and nost consistent yields
under the widest variety of
conditions,” he said. On the
other hand, he said, where
“no-till” or “shallow till”
systems are successful,
plowing may not yield the
best results.
“The moldboard plow can
be used as a conservation
tool by using wider furrows
to leave the field in a rougher
state and by leaving off all
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