No-tillage Seeding in Conservation Agriculture (Second Edition)

Abstract

The book is not intended to be a blueprint on how to design any one style of no-tillage machine, component or system. It is a record of the comparative performances of several different machine design options and management practices, tested under controlled scientific conditions, and how these have been found to integrate into a whole no-tillage system. Much of the information is about the biological performance of machines and soils, since both primarily perform biological functions. But mechanical performance is not ignored either. The interface between the two is particularly important. The reader is invited to place his or her own value on the relevance of the data presented. The relevance some of the authors placed on the data led to the design of the disc version of a winged opener, called Cross Slot®. Others will see different things in the data. However, independent research and field experience have increasingly shown that the data and the conclusions drawn from them have been remarkably accurate and prophetic.