Healthy and High quality soil the necessary for successful farming. By using the best tillage practices for soil, farmers can make sure well-prepared soil to manage weeds, regrow plant nutrients, providing a soft form of sowing seeds, and a suitable surface for seeds. Disking is a practice for soil preparation that is followed by ploughing, whether it’s deep or shallow. While ploughing granulates, cuts, and inverts the soil, to create furrows and ridges, disking breaks up clods and crusts on the surface, improving granulation and surface uniformity. Disking is usually always shallower than ploughing, performed at a depth of 4-6 Inches using agriculture equipment such as a disc harrow, power harrow, poly disc harrow, tandem disc harrow etc. Advantages of Using a Disc harrow
The use of a disc harrow has many advantages for easier soil management. There are many positive effects of disking, some are mentioned here:
Disking is one of the most preferred farm measures to manage crop residue of the previous crop, such as cornstalks, soybean etc. First it chops and then incorporates crop residue into the soil, supporting fast decay and making the soil easier to manage. Another great advantage related with use of disc harrow is the incorporation of agriculture lime into the soil when there is no requirement to increase soil pH. Tillage with a disc harrow supports the mixing of the lime and the soil, to create the perfect ratio, thus reducing acid saturation in the upper layer of the soil. It also provides suitable atmosphere for healthy and solid root development. Can Disking Cause Damage than Benefits? Although using disc harrow has many benefits to improve soil properties, yet in specific circumstances it may negatively impact the soil and disturb its structure. For instance, some herbicides and other chemicals applied to crops becomes part of the crop residue, are combined into the soil during the disking. Furthermore, disking of soil with high moisture may lead to a non-uniform combination of crop residue, and creates clods that might need additional operations to manage soil. Additionally, the compacted soil left under the depth of disking can impact root growth. Due to this reason a farmer should consider the soil moisture before using a harrow. Why Disking is as a Valuable Tillage Practice Disking is a significant tillage practice, even for farmers who generally practice less tillage. To reduce soil disturbance, many famers reduce the use of various agricultural machinery. However, a disc harrow still remains as a part of the farm machines used for preparing soil. Disking seems to be yet another soil tilling practice yet it ultimately effects on both the soil and yield significantly.
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Amaka Ndidi
3/21/2021 12:11:21 am
What about the disadvantages
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