Ways to Avoid or Reduce Soil Compaction

A tire gauge may be one of the most effective tools to use until planting this Spring if you want a safe structure in your soil (and good yields). The best genetic products and the right fertilizer and chemicals have been carefully purchased for the best crop. To sacrifice your results, you do not want the compaction. You can use no till planter for better results and avoid compaction of soil.

Ideal soil is 50% sand and 50% clay and half air and half water. When you compress the dirt, you take pores. It causes low drainage and colder soils that are more likely to be diseased and anaerobic — and hence fewer yields. Reducing compaction leads to creating a soil foundation, allowing water to penetrate heavy machinery easily and warm the soil.

Ken Brodbeck, field engineer at Firestone Ag Tires states that it is important to exert the pressure on your job. The ideally for tractor pneumatics in the field might be 14ppi, but to avoid tire damage during transportation when you pull a planter 5 miles on a track, the pressure has to bump up to around 30ppi. It seems like the producers need extra work—before looking at a proper psi by axle weight on the tire website, from taking time to weigh fertilizer tanks in order to check tires in areas that are difficult to reach, to take time to weigh them.

In addition, there are the estimation variables. Pressure can for example, be regulated at a.m. If it is cool. As psi decreases from 1 to 3 psi every 10 degrees, for example, during a cooler time during the season, for example add 2 to 3 psi for a potential cooler day during the planting cycle.

When buying new pneumatic devices, Brodbeck indicates that IF and VF (Very high Flex) are 20% more loaded and 40% more loaded than normal pneumatics. For instance, an IF tire needs only 23 psi in a standard tire versus 35 psi.

Radial tires also have a stronger bias — but only if they have the right psychiatric.

Thinking Light

Manufacturers love their large tractors and equipment for fast fieldwork, and big axles are less rolling compact. Weight, however is critical.

When the grounds of 35-40 tones are 3-4 feet compact, with much compaction in the top 12 inches, said DeJong-Hughes. Use a smaller tractor, if possible, to work lighter. And don't go to the biggest grain cart that is possible to search. The danger to soil is more significant than the advantages. Therefore, calling for a standard no till planter is easier and the right decision. Visit 4AG Manufacturing to book your schedule and place your requirements.