Soybean is a thermophilic agricultural crop with a growing season of more than 100 days. Like many other crops, soybeans do not grow on waterlogged soils. In conditions of waterlogging and lack of heat, it is recommended to use cultivation on ridges. The formation of ridges occurs during the spring field work before sowing. We offer a design of a ridge-forming device consisting of paws-spud forming furrows; rollers performing a leveling and rolling action on the entire surface of the ridge; as well as flexible plates made of rubber-fabric tape placed on the cylindrical surface of the roller. The presence of flexible plates increases the contact spot with the soil, reduces pressure and rolling resistance, softens shock loads and allows increasing operating speeds, as well as pushes or destroys lumpy structures.

Lontseva Irinz A., Mungalov Vladimir A., Sennikov Vyacheslav A, Epifantsev Victor V.

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