One-pass tillage equipment outstrips conventional tillage method | Zendy

Shrinivasa K. Upadhyaya | Zendy; Kléber Pereira Lanças | Zendy; Abilio G. Santos-Filho | Zendy; Narendra Singh Raghuwanshi | Zendy

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One-pass tillage equipment outstrips conventional tillage method

Author(s) -

Shrinivasa K. Upadhyaya,

Kléber Pereira Lanças,

Abilio G. Santos-Filho,

Narendra Singh Raghuwanshi

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

california agriculture

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.472

H-Index - 25

eISSN - 2160-8091

pISSN - 0008-0845

DOI - 10.3733/ca.v055n05p44

Subject(s) - tillage , environmental science , chisel , agricultural engineering , fuel efficiency , mathematics , automotive engineering , agronomy , engineering , mechanical engineering , biology

For this study, we compared a new one-pass tillage implement called the Incorpramaster with a conventional tillage practice of stubble disking and land planing. Our randomized block experiment on the UC Davis campus evaluated the equipment's energy and time savings. We found that the one-pass tillage equipment (OPTE) outperformed conventional land preparation methods in fuel consumption and speed. Fuel savings ranged from 19% to 81% with a mean savings of 50%. Time savings ranged from 67% to 83% with mean of 72%. The mean soil particle size created by the one-pass tillage implement was comparable to that produced by conventional tillage methods.

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