What are the benefits of ploughing?

Question

What are the benefits of ploughing?

Answer 1

It is not all benefits. Sod planting helps prevent erosion. Plowing turn the organic material under so it can decompose and make fertilizer.

In the fall when the insects have burrowed it turns them out of the ground so the winter freeze will et them. It loosens up the soil for planting. I have found black plastic works well if you can keep it in place. just cut a small hole and plant the seed.

Answer 2

Plowing allows entry of nitrogen containing air into the soil bottom. Loose soil also allows air and worms to get inside.

This way soil fertility is enhanced.

Answer 3

Plowing is good for the soil it allows organic mater to decompose. With no-till you allow all the plant mater to blow away. So then you add more fertilizer to compensate the plants do worse because the ground is to hared to absorb the rain and it just runs off (mainly in clay soils). All you hear is the benefits from the government not the negatives. If you take the government out of the equation the farmers would die out because of the nonprofit with no-till.

Plowing has been done fore thousands of years it proves that it isn't bad. It is largely the scale in witch it is done that causes problems.

Answer 4

The benefits of plowing are primarily weed control, turning under crop residues so that it breaks down faster, and preparing a good clean area for planting seed. These same benefits of the plow have been shown over the years to have a negative effect on the soil environment. The plow is quickly becoming an implement of the past.

Answer 5

Initially it would appear to allow one to get a crop plant into an area that is already at a maximum population. You turn the existing plants under to make a seed bed. Unfortunately plowing ruins the natural soil structure and continued plowing does damage compounded. A better method is "No Till" but with organic materials. If there are any benefits to plowing it would just be the initial plow to get threw the existing plant material, but even that can be dealt with by "no till" methods with patience and mulches.