Description of practice
Controlled traffic is a method for reducing soil compaction by confining all heavy traffic to permanent uncropped wheel tracks or tramlines. It can be used as an element of precision agriculture.
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No tillage with controlled trafficAll heavy traffic is confined to permanent uncropped wheel tracks or tramlines. This is facilitated by all farm equipment sharing the same wheelbase width. Between the tramlines no tillage cultivation is used. |
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Single wheel passageThe three-wheeled, self-propelled slurry applicator causes less compaction than the usual tractor/trailer combination by reducing the area of soil that experiences more than one wheel passage. |
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On-land ploughingOn-land ploughs are used to plough while the tractor pulling it is driving next to (rather than in) the furrow. This avoids compaction of the cultivated soil. |
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Note: Most of the Further information links are to a full description of the example in the WOCAT database. However sometimes the link may be to similar practices or a research paper. Occasionally the link is to a commercial product in which case it should be understood that this does not imply any endorsement of the product by iSQAPER.