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Multi-season tillage tools continue advancement

Feb 24, 2023
Feb 24, 2023

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You’d think that when it comes to the oldest equipment category in agriculture — tillage — that most of the new ideas and innovation occurred decades ago. But new generation tillage tools are creating a new category of super- versatile tools — multi-talented, multi-season implements that might have you rethinking your tillage tool needs.

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The new HALO VRT from the Salford Group is the industry’s first Variable Rate Tillage tool built on a forward-folding, high-speed disk frame.
Photo courtesy Salford Group

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The new Velocity line of tillage implement from Great Plains is among the new generation of super-versatile, multi-season tillage tools.
Photo courtesy Great Plains Mfg.

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