Soil loosening characteristics of a dual bent blade subsurface tillage implement

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 134, Issue , 2013, Pages 17-24

  Salar, M R ^a   Esehaghbeygi, A ^a   Hemmat, A ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Mean weight diameter; Rake angle; Water content; Winged chisel

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION TILLAGE SYSTEMS; FORWARD-AND-BACKWARD; MEAN WEIGHT DIAMETER; RAKE ANGLE; SOIL BULK DENSITY; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SPLIT PLOT EXPERIMENTS; WINGED CHISEL;

CULTIVATION; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL MOISTURE; TOOLS; WATER CONTENT; WELL DRILLING;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; LAND MANAGEMENT; PLOWING; RUPTURE; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL SURFACE; SOIL WATER;

IRAN;

EID: 84881537183     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2013.07.005     Document Type: Article

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