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This book provides an introduction to classical soil mechanics and foundation engineering, and applies these principles to agricultural engineering situations.

Compared with forces occurring in soil mechanics problems in civil engineering, the forces that are applied to soil in farming operations generally have a short

Agricultural soils are subjected to many applied mechanical stresses that influence their behavior. Stresses arise from tillage machines, seeders and chemicals

After giving a brief history of tillage practices and implements used throughout the world dating back to ancient times, this book goes on to describe the basic