| In order to cope with the demand for more food for the ever growing world population, it has become necessary to intensify farming.Agrivultural machines movement across the field increases soil compaction. The objective of this study was to rstablish the effects of soil compaction 0n selected soil physico-mechanical properties. Afactorial experiment in a completely randomised design was used. Tests were conducted on 18 plots to investigate the effect of five tractor wheel pass treatments (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) and a no whool treatment on bulk density, penetration resistance, soil cohesion, angle of internal friction and soil shear strength at three depths (0 -20, 20 - 30 and 30 - 40 cm) with three replications per plot. The results showed that increasing the... |
