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Ridge-till system can reduce cash-crop workload
Adopting a ridge-till system has
saved time as well as soil, an
Ashfield township farmer told a Soil
and Crop Conservation Day in
Brussels March 7.
Laurence Hogan who farms a
large cash crop operation with his
father and two brothers in the
Lucknow area said his farm moved
from conventional tillage to no-till to
ridge-till over the years and ridge-till
has some advantages the other
systems don’t.
Moving into both no-till and
ridge-till about 1983, the family has
concentrated more and more on
ridge-till to the point they grow most
of their crops on ridge-till now. They
found ridge-till resulted in lower
herbicide costs and that the soil
dried out quicker than with no-till.
Ridge-till stops erosion, especially
on slopes where the ridges create a
seriesof little dams. The raised seed
bed of the ridges has advantages for
planting, especially in a wet spring.
With wheel traffic only in the area
between the ridges, there is less
damage to the soil. Equipment costs
are also lowered through the system
and the workload is spread out
throughout the year although the
workload after planting is heavier
than with no-till.
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