Farmers can modify conventional vegetable planters for use in high-residue conservation systems.

Because conservation systems do not plow, the transplanter must be able to:

• Break compacted soil layers, while disturbing surface soil as little as possible.
• Push cover crop residues aside to prevent jamming, hairpinning, or blowout.
• Provide good soil to seedling contact.

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