Optimized Tillage

Invest in future yields

Tillage is an investment in future yields. The agronomic upsides are many: Tillage helps mitigating risks.

By eliminating weeds and leftover seeds, as well as handling crop residues and pests it increases the field hygiene. By breaking compactions, loosening the soil profile as well as breaking clods, it is able to repair.

By levelling and sorting the soil, it is able to prepare the seedbed.

On the other hand, tillage is also connected to potential agronomic downsides: Tillage leads to potential carbon losses, fixed in the soil. Tillage risks disturbing the established soil structure and fungi symbiosis. Tillage risks leading to erosion, as well as moisture losses.

Optimize the tillage working depth and intensity to eliminate the yield-limiting factors in the field
Minimize the disturbance to retain the soil life
Balance the upside effect on future yield, with the potential downside from the tillage operation