Mini-F

The Ovlac Mini plough is designed to combine the advantages of reduced tillage with soil inversion. Ovlac have listened to the market and utilised their 85 years of manufacturing experience to produce a plough capable of complete inversion without disturbing the soil deeper than 20cm. The result, the MINI shallow plough, is a specialist product enabling high work rates, low fuel consumption and excellent weed control.

Traditional ploughing is, without doubt, an ecological and efficient method of weed and disease control. However, in some situations deep ploughing unnecessarily mixes the soil layers bringing unstructured soil to the surface and burying finer topsoil. In the early days of ploughing the maximum depth was around 6” (15cm), which was ideal for keeping the fine tilth, organic matter and beneficial organisms which thrive in the top soil near the surface. Higher horsepower and annual structural damage to the soil by heavy machinery have unnecessarily led to ever deeper ploughing in some farming systems. The MINI provides the benefits of soil inversion and a weed “reset” whilst preserving the medium depth layer and dramatically increasing work rates. The Mini achieves what a multitude of medium depth cultivators are failing to do.

The MINI is an innovative development, it has been designed as a shallow plough able to cope with stubble and soil residue at limited depths of 8-20 cm.
This superficial inversion of the soil surface creates cavities for air and water interchange which enable quicker decomposition of organic matter, improving soil fertility and structure. The shares of the plough also break capillarity helping reduce evaporation from depth in dry periods.