tillage
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Tillage is the practice of turning over and breaking up soil, typically done with mechanical equipment like plows. It's an important part of farming that affects soil health, water retention, and crop growth, though different tillage methods can have varying environmental impacts.
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- Definitions
- History
- Types
- Primary and secondary tillage
- Reduced tillage
- Intensive tillage
- Conservation tillage
- Zone tillage
- Effects
- Positive
- Negative
- Archaeology
- General comments
- Alternatives
- Site preparation of forest land
- Burning
- Ameliorative intervention
- Access
- Mechanical
- Mounding
- Orientation of linear site preparation
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
[[File:Tillage.jpg|thumb|Tillage after corn harvest (Click for video)]]
Tillage is the agricultural preparation of soil by mechanical agitation of various types, such as digging, stirring, and overturning. Examples of human-powered tilling methods using hand tools include shoveling, picking, mattock work, hoeing, and raking. Examples of draft-animal-powered or mechanized work include ploughing (overturning with moldboards or chiseling with chisel shanks), rototilling, rolling with cultipackers or other rollers, harrowing, and cultivating with cultivator shanks (teeth).