Arable farming is increasingly under pressure to find more and more alternative strategies to counteract resistance to pesticides and restrictions on plant protection products. Ultra-shallow tillage can offer advantages with regard to plant protection strategies for volunteer cereals and harmful grasses. By working at seed slot level, germination of the volunteers is encouraged and the seeds are not shifted to deeper layers, where they could fall into dormancy, as is the case with other processes.

Problem grasses and volunteer rape seed are not incorporated, even when working with strip-till, for example with the TERRASEM WAVE DISC. The film from the herbicide application remains on the unmoved strips, which means that the effect of soil herbicides lasts longer.

Delaying the sowing date also offers the opportunity to control black grass when it first emerges and to suppress a second wave to a large extent by minimising tillage.