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tillage

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Also known as tilling, cultivation, ploughing (agriculture), plowing (agriculture)

[[File:Tillage.jpg|thumb|Tillage after corn harvest (Click for video)]]

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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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agriculture
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uses
cultivator
Commons category
Tillage
described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
topic's main category
Category:Tillage
facet of
soil
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Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
partially coincident with
ploughing
class of object(s) of occurrence
soil
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Encyclopedic overview

27 sections
Contents
  • 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).

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