Currently much of the primary tillage is done in the fall. Deep tillage with the moldboard plow is still common, but fall chisel plowing for corn or soybeans is widely used. Other forms of ...

For decades, moldboard plows, disks and field cultivators, all horizontal tillage tools, have been the go-tos for fieldwork. That’s changing as fears about climate change come into focus.

Vertical tillage is not a single tool or a single pass — it is a comprehensive system, says Ken Ferrie. Through the Farm Journal Test Plot program and Ferrie’s experience in hundreds of ...