This series of photos shows a deep-tillage device called a V-rlpper as It bute to compaction. Also calk
digs 15-Inches Into the soli to loosen the hard-packed soil. In hay for more er layers of topsoil and the subsoil to allow for better plant root growth. The
than 25 years, the field was used for many years as a parking lot at Ag Prog- subsoiling demonstration was one of several tillage demonstrations that
ress. Over the years, during dry and wet conditions, cars and other equip- visitors could see at this year’s Ag Progress Days,
ment packed the soli, Inherently full of rocks and clay, which help contrl-
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Now A Deeply Tilled Field
solid hardpan. Dusty and rocky.
Nearly unfit for fanning.
Until a deep tiller, what tillage
experts call a “V-ripper,” arrived
one day.
Despite the rocks, clay, hard
pan, and dry, dry soil, the V-ripper
did its job, and dug down deep
IS inches deep, to be exact. The
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lodge the compaction layer so
harmful to good root growth and
overall crop condition.
The photos here depict the “V
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