Equipped with disks combined with fluted disks, harrows and rollers, they are designed to cut through the residue and create a sweet spot for seeds to germinate. They also help make ground more uniformly level
by MIKE MULHERN
The modern tillage toolbox is a mixture of the old and new with the latest vertical tillage tools designed to handle the growing problem of crop residue.
Jeff Barlow farms 4,500 acres of hard clay in the Binbrook area near Hamilton. He’s been using a vertical tillage tool for the last four years to take on crop residue, to get onto the land early, to open hard ground for planting and to bust crusts that form over pre-emergent corn or soybean fields.