moldboard

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• "It's a lot harder to drag a moldboard plow or heavy disk through the soil than to run a lighter piece of equipment over the top," Smart says.

  Academic text (1997)

• Typically, farmers use a moldboard plow to kill both sorghum and cotton plants.

  Academic text (1997)

• Using a moldboard costs six times more and takes about an hour to cover 3 to 5 acres.

  Academic text (1997)

• The traditional farming system included fallowing every other year and tilling with a moldboard plow.

  Academic text (1999)

• At the edge of town, they rode by a farm where several black men worked the fields with mules and moldboard plows, breaking ground for spring planting.

  Fiction book (1997)

• More than 150 years of churning U.S. soils with heavy-duty moldboard plows have taken their toll.

  Academic text (1995)

• ARS scientists, working with NRCS and universities, have done the research that has encouraged farmers to largely put away the moldboard plow and switch to conservation tillage on about 40 percent of U.S. planted acres.

  Academic text (2003)

• Edwards explains that the growing popularity of no-till and other tillage techniques that eliminate or minimize the use of the old moldboard plow has drastically changed the worm picture in America for the better.

  Academic text (1995)

• Farmers often use a moldboard plow to turn the soil before planting crops.

• The moldboard helps to aerate the soil and mix in nutrients as it plows.

Compounds

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moldboard plow

• Specialized

8.2

A farming tool with a curved metal blade that turns soil for planting

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Etymology