What is "tiling" in farming?

Question

What is "tiling" in farming?

Answer 1

i think you mean tilling not tiling and if so tilling is plowing or discing the soil which is bringing the more moist and more nutritious soil to the top to get it ready for planting crops. you use a tractor and a plow and yes plow is spelt PLOW not plough and tilling is spelt TILLING not tiling !!!! if you cant spell the terminology right you sure as heck don't need to be farming

Answer 2

Big John T and Chili Pepper are right. The question is tiling not tilling.

Answer 3

Tiling is the practice of placing either clay or plastic pipes under ground to direct excess water out of fields.  The practice is common in Eastern Michigan where I grew up.  It is also one of the factors that may have contributed to the flooding now going on along the Iowa, Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.

Answer 4

ploughing

Answer 5

Wrong all of the above!

Tilling is actually working land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation; don't we say "till the soil".

Answer 6

Tiling in agriculture is laying lines of porous tiles, or today plastic lines that are perforated, under the ground to carry excess water from the fields to a ditch. It is a very common practice around here. I would guess that half of the crop land here is tiled, and would be waterlogged a lot of the time without it.

Answer 7

Laying tiles under water channels to keep the water from leaking into the surrounding earth.

Answer 8

Mark, Big John T, Chili Pepper, Bob B, and yeochief are all correct. "Tiling" is the practice of using clay or plastic TILE to remove excess water from farm ground. I know this because the farm I grew up on in West Central Illinois was tiled. (Used clay tiles that sometimes broke leaving "Tile Holes" in the field that would swallow a tractor.)

"Tilling" is plowing, discing, etc.....

Dinku p, sorry but you are wrong. The word is TILING not TILLING.

Yeochief, I would disagree with you about tiling contributing to the flooding going on now. The building of the levies has more to do with it than anything else.

Answer 9

Tilling is removing drier dirt from the top and moving the more moist to the top!

Answer 10

tilling in farming is the act of ploughing , using a tractor, (back in the olden days a horse), and an a plough / implement to cultivate, dig, turnover, disturb the soil etc.

tilling is something that generally has to be done on a farm to prepare seed beds, plant, and also kill and destroy weeds and unwanted plants.

Tilling on a farm should be kept at a minimum if possible, because too much tilling can lead to erosion and soil loss, which is not good on a farm and can be a major problem

Answer 11

tiling is where you lay tile in the ground to carry excess water away to make the ground drier and for everyone who can't spell if you are talking about tilling two i's not one it is a plow not a plough

Answer 12

when you till you usually use a machine that moves fresher dirt to the top of the ground