disking
Cutting up earth
Disking is working soil with a disk harrow—an agricultural implement with rows of concave metal disks that cut and turn earth.
Farmers disk fields to break up clods, incorporate crop residue, or prepare seedbeds: We spent the morning disking the north forty.
The process creates a finer, more uniform soil texture than plowing alone.
tillage
Extremely distressing or disturbing
- cultivatorSoil-turning implement
- seedbedPrepared ground for sprouting
- furrowNarrow trench in earth
- plowTool for turning soil
equipment
Agricultural pulling vehicle
- implementTool or enact
- hydraulicsStudy of pressurized liquids
- PTOPaid absence from work
- gangOrganized criminal group
harrowing
Extremely distressing or disturbing
- cultivatorSoil-turning implement
- seedbedPrepared ground for sprouting
- furrowNarrow trench in earth
tractor
Agricultural pulling vehicle
- implementTool or enact
- hydraulicsStudy of pressurized liquids
- PTOPaid absence from work
loam
Fertile soil mixture
sand · humus · compaction · aeration · clod · aggregate · friable · hardpan · drainage · stubble
- garden prepdigging, tilling, soil testing, soil amendment, fertilizing
- tillagetilling, plowing, conservation tillage, no-till, furrowing
- farmingfarm, farms, farmer, farmers, crop
- farmworkharvesting, farmworkers, planting, farm labor, crop farming
- earthworkdigging, excavation, excavating, trenching, shoveling
- fieldworkfieldwork, field work, field journal, field guide, field study