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Mohammad Loghavi, S. Reza Ashrafizadeh,
Volume 1, Issue 2 (10-1997)
Abstract
The effects of three levels of soil moisture content (8-10, 10-12 and 12-14% d.b.) and three levels of plowing depth (15, 20 and 25 cm) on draft, specific draft and drawbar power requirement of a 7-shank chisel plow in a clay loam soil were investigated. The experimental design was a randomized complete block design with a 3×4 factorial. The effect of plowing depth on all of the parameters mentioned was highly significant. Implement draft and drawbar power requirement both increased with plowing depth, whereas a decreasing trend of specific draft with depth was observed. Soil moisture content had no significant effect on draft and specific draft of chisel plow in the range of moisture contents studied, though both parameters were minimized at 10-12% m.c. At this moisture level, the drawbar power requirement showed a significant reduction comparing with the other two moisture levels. This indicated that the soil was close to its optimum friability at this moisture content. Soil penetrometer readings, taken before and after plowing, indicated the existence of a hardpan from about 8 to 20 cm below the surface which was broken by chisel tines, but another hard layer formed under the plowing depth by the chisel points. Comparison of the results from the present study with those from the previously published works on chisel plow draft at similar plowing depths showed that the values obtained for draft and specific draft were acceptably close to those previous investigators. Also, a comparison with the findings of Loghavi and Moradi on moldboard plow draft under similar conditions confirmed the reports of previous investigators to the effect that a chisel plow requires approximately one-half of the draft of a moldboard plow with the same working width and depth.
A. Heidari, A. Hemmat, S.m Rezvani,
Volume 18, Issue 67 (6-2014)
Abstract
efficiency was investigated during a 2-year period (2009-2010) in a silty clay loam soil in Tajarak Research Station
(Kaboudarahang Township), Hamedan. The experimental design was a strip-plot within a randomized complete blocks
design. The horizontal band, the irrigation water rate after flowering, included full and deficit irrigation (100% and 75%
potato water requirement) and the vertical band, kind of inter-planting row tillage including 1- subsoiling to 30-35 cm
soil depth, 2- chiseling to 20-25 cm soil depth, 3- sweeping to 5 cm soil depth and 4- no-till. During the growing
season, soil mechanical resistance (cone index) in two stages and water infiltration into the soil were measured. At the
end of the growth season (harvesting time), potato yield quantity and quality were measured. Result showed that the
effect of inter-row tillage on soil mechanical resistance was significant. Subsoiling and chiseling had lower soil
mechanical resistance and higher water permeability between treatments, respectively. The effect of inter-row tillage on
potato yield was significant so subsoiling and chiseling had a higher potato yield between treatments, respectively. The
effect of irrigation water rate on potato yield was not significant. The effect of inter-row tillage on water use efficiency
wasn’t significant.
