Purdue Landscape Report, Using Pneumatic Digging Equipment to Correct Root Deformations, Deep Planting, and Compaction on Established Trees: When transplanting trees, it is important to consider the ...

Regardless of what you’re growing, spring is an exciting time of year. But it doesn’t come without challenges. Compaction can lead to wet soil that makes it difficult to get in your fields on time for ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Crop fields are taking the 2002 season hard, but it might not require a deep tillage operation to loosen them up. The wild weather extremes that compelled many farmers to plant ...

Fixing or recovering from soil compaction can take years and prove costly to your operation. But as Albert Einstein once quipped, “Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.” While we can’t ...

Soils damaged by livestock and machinery significantly reduce the uptake of essential nutrients – they will run off the surface instead of being taken down to the roots. And the worm populations that ...

Placing asphalt is only a single battle in the war to reach project specifications. What comes after paving — breakdown, intermediate and finish compaction — is where bonus checks are often earned (or ...

Deep or subsoil compaction is caused by total axle load of the equipment. For example, a 12-row combine fully loaded as an axle weight of about 26 tons. Research shows that loads of these magnitudes ...

Using old ideas for new methods of compaction|~|Landpac body.jpg|~||~|Old ideas often hold the answer to many of the technical problems that we face. Construction is no different as commercial ...

Soil compaction is becoming of increasing concern to Indiana agriculture. For many years,it was thought to be mostly a "southern U.S. problem" and of little importance in the Midwest. Today, however, ...