Tractor Uses a Soil-Ripping Shank (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Tractor Uses a Soil-Ripping Shank

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A tractor uses a soil-ripping shank to loosen and mix soil in typical California farmland. In some parts of California, the soil was formed over hundreds of thousands of years before being transformed by agriculture.

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(Photo by Ronald Amundson)

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