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What is a moldboard?

What is a moldboard? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A curved piece of metal on a plow or bulldozer that clears the free dirt from the blade.
  2. (founding) A follow board.
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As a result, the yield potentials of such soils are usually higher under no-till or ridge tillage than under moldboard plowing.
Conservation or reduced tillage systems do not involve moldboard plowing and maintain some previous crop residue on the soil surface.
The 18th-century addition of the moldboard, which turned the furrow slice cut by the plowshare, was an important advance.
We still moldboard plow most of our corn and soybean ground, so we are busy getting that tillage done.
We store seed wheat in a wooden grainary, we shovel starter fertilizer into the drills by hand, and we still use a moldboard plow.
Effective erosion control is often achieved on flatter slopes by using a chisel plow, disk, or field cultivator instead of the moldboard plow.

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