METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MINIMUM TILLAGE FARMING

摘要

Tillage required and fertilizer and herbicide consumption is minimized by placing fertilizer deep in the soil in the fall without thoroughly mixing the fertilizer and soil. The fertilizer is placed by first forming a deep channel, placing the fertilizer in the channel and forming a mound of dirt over the imbedded fertilizer. In the spring, seeds are planted in the top portion of the same mound. This method results in diminished weed growth and increased crop growth while using less amounts of fertilizer and herbicides. The same basic mound structure is then maintained from year to year. The tillage, fertilization and cultivation are performed with a single, combination farm implement comprising a platform having a number of plows, bedders and fertilizer applicators mounted thereon in the fall. In the spring, the same platform has spreaders, planters and bedders for planting mounted thereon.