Power Tillage Compared with Conventional Tillage Tools for Grassland Renovation

ABSTRACT Eight randomized block experiments were conducted to compare a power tillage renovation seeder with a conventional technique for grassland renovation. The power tillage renovation seeder required about one fifth as much tractor fuel as a conventional technique. The field capacity with the power tillage renovation seeder was about six times the field capacity with a conventional technique. The power tillage renovation seeder with a hejbicide resulted in significantly better stands of red clover than a conventional technique. The percent of weeds in the harvested forage was significantly greater where a conventional technique was used than when the power tillage renovation seeder was used to renovate grass fields.