Description standards of primary tillage implements

Abstract

Recent research has shown that different types of tillage implements have a different impact on soil translocation. Tillage experiment descriptions in the bibliography are usually incomplete in their description of the implements and the experimental tillage conditions, which makes some difference if one wants to compare different experiments through time and space. The aim of this paper is to present a diagnostic of the problem, showing the importance of describing the implements and at the same time to present a proposal for a standard description of mouldboards, disc harrows and cultivators that should be taken into account when tillage experiments are carried out.