Round-up spraying 3 wks. prior to cultivation gives you a great single pass cultivation option:

 a.) Strip tillage. Rip, cultivate, placement of fertilizer at desired depth in a 200mm wide cultivate strip for the seed placement. Placing fert at a depth that remains in the moisture zone, keeping fertilizer available to the crop during dry periods. It’s about encouraging the roots down to the moisture before dry conditions arrive.

b.) Double disc, Rip, roll chop with bar roller (one pass operation) – A ripping foot with a unique lifting action that is positioned for the soil to hit the bar roller. Chopping it into a nutty seed bed suitable for planting. The seed bed finish depending on quality of herbicide spraying.

c.) Tineplow is especially engineered to accomplish aeration/cultivation in one process. Its 2 rows of tines work by lifting the soil in order to crack it without altering the soil composition. The vibrating action of the tines ensure a consistent soil loosening. A double ripple roller cultivates and compacts sufficient for moisture retention.

Cultivation 10 days or less after Round-up spraying

d.) Atlas disc cultivator – This equipment is excellent at cutting root mass into small clods working at a shallow depth. It has the weight and aggression to also cultivate at a primary cultivation depth with excellent results. A second pass will give a finer secondary finish. The disc angle creates a much superior action to pull in and cultivate without the Compaction observed from the standard straight axle discs

e.) Power Harrow pass for a finer pass may be desirable if planting small seeds.