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Vertical Tillage

Lori Hays

Created on December 3, 2024

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Advantages

Vertical Tillage

Disadvantages

Obstacles to Adoption

Prerequisites for Success

Management Tips

Obstacles to Adoption

  • Requires significant horsepower with flotation on tractors and sprayers to avoid wheel-track compaction
  • Planter must be able to handle residue
  • Need to accomplish fall tillage before weather turns wet

Disadvantages

  • Requires a higher level of management than horizontal tillage

Prerequisites for Success

  • Control weeds with burndown herbicides rather than tillage
  • Run staggered shank tools like disk rippers deep enough to keep peaks 4" to 5" below the surface
  • Run in-line rippers deep enough to shatter from shank to shank
  • All tillage tools should have leveling devices on the rear

Advantages

  • Removes tillage pans, compacted layers, density changes and wheel tracks

Management Tips

  • Do vertical tillage behind the combine
  • Adjust tillage tool shank spacing, depth and speed for moisture conditions in each field
  • Also consider tillage depth based on depth of the topsoil