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If you are into commercial farming you would know that there are several kinds of farm equipments that you need to buy to keep your farm in trim. You would need the basic traction equipment such as the tractor that's the source of primary power on which several implements would be mounted. You need implements for the basic task of aeration or soil cultivation. These could be the cultivator that is similar to a chisel plow and is generally used for weed control. Then you have several types of harrow such as the chain harrow, the disc harrow, spike harrow or the spring tine harrow and the subsoiler. Among the harrows, the chain harrow is used for light jobs such as when you cover the seeds once they are sown. You would need implements for planting of seeds as well as for fertilizing and pest control. For irrigation, you would need a variety of implements depending on whether you are going in for surface irrigation or localized, drip irrigation, sub-irrigation, manual irrigation or sprinkler and center-pivot irrigation.
Tillage is the preparation of the soil by plowing and turning it. There are several kinds of tillage equipment that you would need for commercial farming and these are the disc harrows that could be the offset kind or the tandem type. For primary tillage you would need the chisel plow and the disc as well as the in-line rippers. Then you have vertical tillage equipment as well as those that you would need for seedbed preparation such as the field cultivators and seedbed conditioners.
Though aeration is a generic term that would include several different kinds of agricultural implements, each type of aerator actually has a typical role in which the implement excels. You, therefore, have the plug type core aerator and the tractor aerator besides the spike aerator. Core aerators have tines that are hollow as well as core or pull out type plugs. Core aerators remove soil and leave the core on the ground. Compaction is reduced and the holes remain open for air, water and fertilizer to reach the plant roots.
