Reservoir Tillage 850 – a New and Simple Tillage Tool to Help Conserve Water in Farmer Fields

Description:

• Justification: Using the Reservoir Tillage 850 will help farmers collect in their fields as much rainfall as Mother Nature would provide, therefore, increasing the amount of water getting to their plants. In addition, the RT850 can limit wind erosion as well as reduce runoff and the amount of fertilizers and chemicals in waterways.

• Objective: Introduce cotton growers to a new tillage practice that creates a soil profile with better infiltration and permeation, allowing farmers to make optimal use of available water that gets to their field either by rainfall or irrigation.

• Materials & Methods: The past four years developed a reservoir tillage tool for row crop with 10 inch teeth that penetrates the soil and creates depressions to retain both water and soil as well as aerate the ground.

• Results: Present to cotton growers the crop and environmental benefits of the RT850.