58 results about "TILLING" patented technology

The invention relates to the technical field of saline-alkali land improvement, in particular to a comprehensive treatment method for a saline-alkali land. The method consists of the following steps that 1, the saline-alkali land is deep ploughed and tilled loosely, an rice straw interlayer is laid and the surface is leveled, wherein the ploughing depth is 25-30 cm; 2, irrigation and salt washingare performed three times, wherein the water consumption is 60-160 m<3> per mu at a time, and the total water consumption is 300-400 m<3>; 3, a microbial organic fertilizer is applied to the saline-alkali land, tilling and leveling are conducted again; 4, salt-tolerant alkali-tolerant rice is planted for crop rotation with green manure plants. The method can improve the physical structure of soil,reduce the evaporation amount of water in the soil of the saline-alkali land, enhance the water-holding capacity of the soil, increase the content of organic matter, reduce the disasters of crop diseases and insects, increase the yield of crops, improve the economic benefits of the saline-alkali land and reduce the degree of soil salinization.

A method and system of tillage and tillage management that includes the steps of establishing a plurality of soil profiles over an area of soil to be cultivated, creating soil map database by combining these soil profiles to establish a treatment and cultivation regime, cultivating the ground in accordance regime and recording the cultivation in the soil map database. A subsoil tool for carrying out the method and system, with a shank (18) connected to a vehicle and to a ripper foot (20) terminating in a ripper tooth (22); a hydraulic ram (26) attached at a lower end to a first pivot connection (28) and at an upper end to an actuator means; the first pivot connection is attached to a rear end of a laterally extending wing member (30), a front end of the wing member being pivotally attached to the shank through a second pivot point (32) and the wing member is selected in accordance with soil profile at any position on a soil map database and is oscillated in response to actuation of the ram.

The invention provides a growth promoter containing microbial agent for inducing composite growth promotion and most effective growth promoting possibility thereby. The microbial agent contains at least two or more PGPR stains selected from soil microbe, and one of them must be a mixture of AP162. Thus, the invention probably overcomes the defects caused by traditional method of random using PGPR strain, such as high cost and low growth promoting effect. In addition, if the growth promoter of the invention is used in cultivation of crops such as cabbage, cucumber, beans, red peppers and tomatoes, the crop of fine variety can be obtained in relative shorter period thereby enhancing marketability and yield and reducing usage amount of fertilizer, thus continuous cultivation can be realized without destroying soil aggregate.

The invention discloses a cold-zone japonica rice dry-seeding water pipe cultivation method, which comprises the following steps of: (1) land preparation before seeding, which comprises autumn rotary tilling and stubble cleaning, land flattening and spring rotary tilling and pulverizing; (2) seed preparation, which comprises variety selection and seed processing; (3) sowing; (4) fertilizer application, which comprises control on a fertilization quantity and a fertilizing mode; (5) water layer management, which comprises primary irrigation, water layer management in a tillering stage, water layer management in a jointing-booting stage and water layer management in heading, poplar blossoming and filling stages; (6) weeding, which comprises two modes of agricultural weeding and chemical weeding; (7) prevention and treatment of diseases and insect pests, which comprise grass cutting and cocoon removal and chemical prevention and treatment; (8) harvesting, which comprises determination of a harvesting period, a mechanical harvesting mode and a storage mode. Compared with the prior art, the cold-zone japonica rice dry-seeding water pipe cultivation method disclosed by the invention has the advantages that the dry-seeding water pipe cultivation method disclosed by the invention is a simple and water-saving cultivation mode, and can achieve unification of simplicity and water saving and high yield and high quality; the cold-zone japonica rice dry-seeding water pipe cultivation method adapts to the climatic characteristics of cold zones and is suitable for black soil, Baijiang soil and saline-alkali soil; sustainable development of production of japonica rice in the cold zones and improvement of productivity can be promoted.

The invention discloses a tilling and agent spreading device for soil restoration. The device comprises a bottom plate, a top plate, a smashing mechanism, a soil shoveling mechanism, a lifting mechanism, a transferring mechanism and an agent spreading mechanism. The smashing mechanism comprises a smashing bin, a shaft rod, a screen plate, a smashing pressing plate, a support and a lifting plate, the soil shoveling mechanism comprises a coupling, a soil shoveling plate, and an electric telescopic rod, the lifting mechanism comprises a lifting cylinder, a second rotating shaft and a first motor,the transferring mechanism comprises a transferring bin, a transferring cylinder and a sliding way, and the agent spreading mechanism comprises an agent liquid bucket, a conversion bin and an atomizing nozzle. The device has the following advantages that the soil is smashed, then, agent liquid spraying operation is carried out, the defect that a traditional spraying device only can spray the agent liquid to the soil can be overcome, during spraying process of the restoration agent, soil tilling work is achieved, and subsequent planting is facilitated.

The invention discloses a separating and screening method and applications of chlorpyrifos-degrading bacterium. The separating and screening method and applications of the chlorpyrifos-degrading bacterium are realized through the steps of soil collection, culture medium preparation, chlorpyrifos-degrading bacterium domestication, chlorpyrifos-degrading bacterium separation, bacterial strain identification, bacterial preparation preparation and chlorpyrifos degradation by adopting the bacterial preparation. The inorganic salt culture medium taking chlorpyrifos as the unique carbon source is adopted, the chlorpyrifos-degrading bacterium is domesticated in the field soil in which rice is planted throughout the year and in which the pesticide, namely, chlorpyrifos is frequently used, the degrading bacterium is separated by adopting the solid culture medium so that the single bacterial strain is obtained, the 16SrDNA sequence of the bacterial strain is subjected to sequencing, the species of the bacterial strain is identified by combining with the homology analysis and phylogenetic analysis, and then the bacterial strain is prepared into the bacterial preparation which is used for degrading chlorpyrifos.

The invention discloses an ecological system for tailing pond closing and pollution prevention and control, and a control method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of mine ecological restoration. The ecological system comprises a reclamation area, a first-stage purification area, a second-stage purification area and an ecological utilization area, and the areas are constructed in a fall manner and are connected through pipelines to form a closed loop. The reclamation area is formed by covering 30 cm clean soil on tailing slag, crops are planted, tailing pond regreening is achieved, and the agricultural production capacity of the area not suitable for cultivation is restored. Rainfall and irrigation water can be recycled to leach tailings, residual heavy metal in the tailings is prevented from migrating to soil and underground water of a mining area, secondary pollution is avoided, and ecological restoration is achieved; after the system operates, the pressure of rainfall on the side wall of a tailing pond can be relieved, and secondary disasters such as dam break and collapse are reduced or avoided; the ecological system is low in cost and energy consumption, convenient tooperate and maintain and suitable for popularization and application.

The invention relates to the technical field of agricultural machinery, and discloses a mulching film laying device for crop plowing and sowing. The device comprises a fixed frame, a rotating spoon device is movably connected in the middle of the lower surface of the fixed frame through a shaft-shaped rod in a sleeving manner, a fixed plate is fixedly connected on the lower surface of the fixed frame and positioned on the left side of the shaft-shaped rod, a mulching film clamping block is connected on a thread of the fixed plate in the fixed frame in a sleeving manner, a pressing wheel is fixedly connected on the upper surface of the fixed frame and positioned on the fixed plate, and a soil covering plough is movably connected on the left side of the pressing wheel in a sleeving manner. According to the mulching film laying device for crop plowing and sowing, a position of a flattening plate is adjusted by a clamping device, the top of a mulching film ridge is conveniently and uniformly flattened before a mulching film is laid, bumpiness of soil blocks on the ridge is avoided, so that the laid mulching film cannot be scratched, the device solves the problems that an existing laidmulching film is easily scratched, good heat insulation and insect pest removal effects on crops cannot be achieved, and the lossless performance of the laid mulching film and the heat insulation effect of the mulching film on the crops are improved.

A system for monitoring tillage conditions of a field may include an agricultural implement and a tillage sensor supported on the agricultural implement. The tillage sensor has a field of view directed towards a portion of the field disposed relative to the agricultural implement, with the tillage sensor being configured to generate data indicative of a tillage floor levelness associated with a tillage floor of the field disposed below a surface of the field. The system may further include a controller configured to receive the data from the tillage sensor indicative of the tillage floor levelness as the agricultural implement moves across the field and monitor the tillage floor levelness based at least in part on the data received from the tillage sensor.

The invention discloses a three-dimensional ecological restoration method for a mining subsidence area. The three-dimensional ecological restoration method for the mining subsidence area comprises the following steps of: S1: through a range finder, measuring the length and the width of a subsidence area and the depth, which is relative to the ground plane, of the subsidence area, carrying out soil sampling on each area, and obtaining the data information of the subsidence area; S2: according to the obtained information, dividing the subsidence area into three parts: a) an aquaculture area, b) a cultivation area and c) a water and soil loss prevention area; and S3: enabling the water bottom of the a) area to be extruded out of parts of soil, selecting an arid season, utilizing an agricultural machine to dig residual soil, keeping the water bottom to be flat, transforming the water body of the a) area to form the aquaculture area, arranging a detection system to monitor the water body, and arranging a water source conveying system. The three-dimensional ecological restoration method for the mining subsidence area can monitor the environment of the water body of the a) area, and enlarges a cultivated land repairing area to the greatest extent on the basis of the water content of soil, various ecological areas are mutually linked to realize a purpose of mutually accelerating repairing, and therefore, the subsidence area is recovered to achieve an expected effect.

The invention discloses an agricultural Internet of Things method, system and device based on a Beidou positioning module, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining the regional longitude and latitude distribution information of a first agricultural cultivation region, detecting a first simulation space, and transmitting the first agricultural cultivation region to a target cultivation site in the simulation space; using a target cultivation site in the simulation space as initial longitude and latitude, generating a geographic coordinate track and initial longitude and latitude of geographic coordinates in the simulation space, and the initial longitude and latitude of the geographic coordinates belonging to the geographic coordinate track. A first agricultural cultivation area with a positional relationship is provided, the first agricultural cultivation area has a geographic coordinate trajectory and an initial latitude and longitude of geographic coordinates, a distance between a second simulation space located in the geographic coordinate trajectory and a target cultivation site is detected, and an initial point is made at the initial latitude and longitude of the geographic coordinates. And a simulation space is established to construct a whole coordinate system, so that the situation that spatial position attributes are matched for a long time is avoided, and the positioning efficiency of the agricultural Internet of Things is improved.

The invention discloses an annual irrigation-free proper-soil-moisture-planting farming method for forage crops and belongs to the technical field of agricultural cultivation. In view of phenologicalcharacteristics of offshore low-plain regions, the invention provides an irrigation-free stable annual-forage-supply proper-soil-moisture-planting farming method. The method comprises the following steps: (1) spring-sowing silage corn planting; (2) mulching film mulching for rainwater storage; (3) triticale planting; (4) summer-sowing silage corn planting; (5) soil deep-plowing and rotary tillagetreatment; and (6) subsequent proper-field planting. The forage crops, which are suitable for being planted at different time nodes, are reasonably matched through analyzing annual rain-heat resourcesof the regions, and annual irrigation-free production supply of the forage is achieved by utilizing scientific coupling between the forage crops and climatic resources and a rainwater-collecting soil-moisture-preserving water storage technology. According to the method, annual irrigation-free production is achieved, the supply volume of high-quality forage is increased greatly, and thus, the method plays a positive supporting role in promoting agricultural income increase and development of animal husbandry.

A mollusc farming machine deploys a tillage assembly connected by a support frame to a vehicle platform. The vehicle platform enables the user to mechanically traverse the tillage assembly across an aquaculture harvesting area, digging into the earth of the harvesting area in order to harvest clams and other molluscs. An agitating mechanism causes reciprocal motion of the tillage assembly in order to break up the aquaculture earth as a tilling section of the tillage assembly is displaced at an angle through the earth, forcing the earth and any buried molluscs onto the tillage section. The agitating motion further serves to sift the earth by causing dirt, plant matter and other debris to fall through spaces between a plurality of sifting rods of the tilling section, leaving behind any molluscs previously buried within the earth to be easily collected by workers.

The invention discloses a three-point positioning technology-based intelligent agricultural machinery path planning system. The system comprises a terminal; the terminal comprises a mobile phone APP and a remote controller; the terminal is connected with an intelligent path planning unit, a field work unit, a rotary tilling path and program memorization function unit and a field road automatic driving system; the intelligent path planning unit involves map introduction, path planning, fully-automatic rotary tillage, partial rotary tillage, edgewise rotary tilling, spiral rotary tilling and cross rotary tillage; the field work unit involves an obstacle avoidance system, boundary recognition, rotary tillage depth adjustment, flatness settlement, rotary tilling speed and advancing and retreating gear setting and braking; the field road automatic driving system involves an automatic driving system, braking, a path memory function and direction control; and the path planning unit involves three-point positioning. According to the three-point positioning technology-based intelligent agricultural machinery path planning system of the invention, with the three-point positioning technology-based agricultural machinery path planning mode realized, the mechanization and automation of agricultural tillage are realized, manpower can be saved, and work efficiency can be improved.

The invention belongs to the technical field of agricultural machinery, and discloses a special machine for ridging, film mulching, film surface rainwater collection and efficient cultivation of potatoes in dry land. A mechanical cross beam is arranged, a soil rotary tilling device is mounted at the front end of the mechanical cross beam, a fertilizer box is mounted at the upper end of the mechanical cross beam, and a power mechanical soil feeding device is connected to the soil rotary tilling device through a chain; the mechanical soil feeding device is connected with four soil dividing and film pressing grooves; a water supplementing barrel is arranged at the upper end of the soil dividing film pressing grooves; and a double-ridging furrow plough, a mulching film mounting cross rod, a film breaker, a film mulching scraper and other one-time double-ridging film mulching ridge middle film breaking, earthing and pressing devices are arranged at the lower end of the mechanical cross beam. Each performance of the special machine completely meets the technical index requirements of a 'ridging, film mulching, film surface rainwater collection and high-efficiency cultivation technology for potatoes in dry land', and potatoes, beet and other crops needing ridging for planting are sown in arid areas and semi-arid areas.

The invention relates to the technical field of cultivation equipment, in particular to a soybean and corn interplanting yield increasing technical method and cultivation equipment, and aims to improve the convenience of synchronous soybean and corn interplanting of the equipment, improve the cultivation efficiency, reduce the labor intensity of manual seeding, and improve the practicability. The device comprises: a frame, a guide supporting arm, two groups of seeding devices, two groups of trench devices, an adjusting device, and a soil crushing device, wherein the left end and the right end of the guide supporting arm are connected with the inner side wall of the frame, the two groups of seeding devices are installed on the outer side wall of the guide supporting arm in a mirror image sliding mode, sliding of the two seeding devices is driven by the adjusting device, the two groups of trench devices are respectively mounted on the two groups of seeding devices, and the soil crushing device is mounted on the frame; the seeding devices comprise a first sliding block, a connecting piece, a box body, a plurality of groups of fixing plates, a plurality of groups of connecting rods, a plurality of groups of springs, two groups of supporting legs, a first rotating shaft, two groups of shifting wheels, a funnel, rotating wheels and a plurality of groups of baffles, wherein the first sliding block is slidably mounted on the outer side wall of the guide supporting arm.

The invention belongs to the technical field of agricultural machineries, and discloses a micro tiller applied to different soil conditions and different dryland operation needs and a control method.When the blade of the micro tiller tills to hard soil, the ground grasping plate of a constant speed rotating wheel cuts into the ground, the forward impulse of the blade is restricted by the ground grasping plate, the advancing speed of the blade slows down, and the in-situ tilling times are increased; when the blade of the micro tiller tills to soft soil and the blade sinks, a soil grasping plate performs constant-speed forward pushing to enable the blade to be away from the sunken soil layer to continue forward tilling; when the blade sinks into a ditch or a pot hole, through pressing a seat, the soil grasping plate provides thrust to push the micro tiller out of the ditch or the pot hole; and when the micro tiller reverses, the ground grasping plate on the constant speed rotating wheelperforms low-rotating speed limiting, and the micro tiller retreats and slows down. The micro tiller applied to different soil conditions and different dryland operation needs is suitable for stickysoil and other soil areas and has the advantages of simple structure, compact structure, light weight, low fuel consumption, high efficiency, flexible operation, convenient maintenance and reliable operation.

The invention provides a deep scarification device and system, a method for adjusting the tilling depth and a method for controlling the tilling depth, and relates to the field of agricultural equipment. The deep scarification device comprises a machine frame, a straw cleaning mechanism and a deep scarification mechanism, and the straw cleaning mechanism is connected with a front beam of the machine frame and suitable for cleaning straws in a detection area to the two sides of the detection area; and the deep scarification mechanism is connected with a rear beam of the machine frame, located behind the straw cleaning mechanism and suitable for detecting the real-time height to the soil surface and adjusting the tilling depth according to the real-time height, so that the tilling depth is equal to the needed tilling depth value. The straws in the detection area are cleaned to the two sides of the detection area through the straw cleaning mechanism, so that detection errors caused by the straws are avoided; and the real-time height of the soil surface is detected through the deep scarification mechanism, the tilling depth is adjusted according to the real-time height, so that the tilling depth is equal to the required tilling depth value, it is guaranteed that the plow pan is effectively broken in the whole deep scarification process, meanwhile, power consumption is reduced, and the optimal deep scarification effect is achieved.

The invention belongs to the field of farmland soil improvement, and particularly relates to a method for improving soil through the combined action of a mixed fungicide and a chemical fertilizer. The method comprises the following steps: crushing corn straws in a crusher, carrying out thermal cracking on the corn straws, and naturally cooling to prepare charcoal; uniformly applying the mixed bacterial agent into farmland soil according to the proportion of 200kg / mu; when the base fertilizer is applied during farmland cultivation, the application amount of the chemical fertilizer is 30%-50% of the conventional application amount, the application amount of the normal sorghum per mu is 30 kilograms, and the application amount of the compound fertilizer per mu is 9-15 kilograms. The method disclosed by the invention is simple and easy to implement, and needs to supplement a mixed microbial agent once every year, which relieves farmland soil hardening and acidification, improves farmland soil fertility, reduces soil bulk density, promotes farmland soil organic matter accumulation, is beneficial to growth of farmland soil microbial flora, improves crop rhizosphere environment, reduces farmland chemical fertilizer consumption, reduces crop diseases and insect pests, and improves the fertilizer utilization rate.

The invention relates to the field of agricultural machines, and discloses a rotary tilling, stubble breaking, fertilizing, sowing and ditching combined operation machine, capable of adapting to fieldoperations in a high-humidity zone, for wheat after rice in a wet and rotten field. The combined operation machine comprises a frame, a hitching device, a sowing and fertilizing device, a rotary tilling device and a selective ditching device; the frame is a load-bearing component of the combined operation machine; the hitching device is mounted on the frame, and is connected with a power mechanical suspension device; the sowing and fertilizing device can be driven by a motor independently to perform sowing and fertilizing operations of a precise and small quantity; the rotary tilling device includes a reverse-rotating cutter shaft group and a forward-rotating small cutter shaft group, wherein the reverse-rotating cutter shaft group is installed on brackets at two sides below the frame, and an adjustable baffle is arranged behind the reverse-rotating cutter shaft group to relieve the condition that wet soil drops backwards to block seed dropping tubes, while the forward-rotating smallcutter shaft group is arranged on connecting plates at two sides behind the seed dropping tubes, and is used for covering seeds with soil; and the selective ditching device includes a cutterhead, a scattered soil guide plate, a ditch shape finishing device and the like. The invention has the advantages that the rotary tilling, stubble breaking, fertilizing, sowing and ditching combined operation machine for the wheat after rice in the wet and rotten field is designed, adapts to operation conditions of the high-humidity zone, avoids the problems that the seed dropping tubes are blocked, clay adheres to conventional press wheels and even seeds are carried, formed ditch shapes are irregular, and the like, improves weather adaptability and regional adaptability of the combined operations, andcan realize operations of rotary tilling, fertilizing, sowing, covering with soil, ditching and the like of the wheat after rice once, so that the efficiency of the field operations is increased, andlabor intensity is relieved.

The invention relates to the technical field of agricultural production, in particular to a rice planting method based on quantitative nitrogen fertilizer application, which is characterized in that quantitative nitrogen fertilizer application is performed before planting and during breeding, and weeding and pest killing are performed before planting and during breeding, so that plant diseases andinsect pests are reduced, high quality and high yield are achieved, and the yield of rice is greatly increased; scientific and reasonable fertilization is carried out on nutrient supply of the rice through the compound fertilizer according to stages, and the method adapts to the whole growth process of the rice; times of cultivation, weeding, pest killing and fertilization are grasped in place, and produced rice is full in grain and rich in nutrition. The self-made composite nitrogen fertilizer is added, so that the growth and development of crops can be effectively promoted, the quality of rice can be improved, the yield of the crops can be effectively increased, the quality of plants is well improved, the growth promoting and rapid growth effects can be achieved, and meanwhile, the invention has the effects of improving the soil environment, strengthening the fertilizer making capacity and improving the yield. The soil microbial metabolism is convenient to promote, and the advantageis stronger.

The invention discloses a foxtail millet culturing technique for no-tillage multiple cropping on dry lands. The foxtail millet culturing technique comprises the following steps of step I, preparing seeds; step II, preparing land parcels; step III, preparing fertilizers; step IV, preparing mulching films; step V, performing film overlaying and earthing up; step VI, performing sowing; step VII, performing field management; step VIII, performing preventative treatment on disease and insect pests; and step IX, performing harvesting and later stage mulching film treatment. The invention relates tothe technical field of culture. Through the adoption of the foxtail millet culturing technique for no-tillage multiple cropping on dry lands, after foxtail millet is harvested, mulching films are protected, weeding is performed at a leisure, and the seeds are inserted in soil through a sowing machine; after the foxtail millet is mature, when the foxtail millet is collected, the mulching films arenot destroyed, the completeness of the mulching films is protected, and weeding and fertilizing are performed regularly; and when sowing is performed once again, sowing is directly performed on original mulching films once again, harrowing and tilling are not needed, and the problems that during culturing each time in an existing culturing manner, harrowing and tilling are needed, time is wasted,cost is high, and labor intensity is large can be solved.

The invention discloses a wheat-corn double-cropping three-avoiding one-turning rotary tillage planting method, which is characterized in that no-tillage and straw stubble covering are implemented from the first year to the third year, that is to say, wheat seeding adopts a no-tillage combined seed and fertilizer drill to perform one-time seeding on the premise of adopting as little disturbance to soil as possible, the fertilizer is granular compound fertilizer as far as possible, and the possibility of blockage is low; after corn is harvested in the fourth year, corn straw is smashed through a straw returning machine, the ground surface is evenly covered with the smashed corn straw, then deep ploughing is conducted by 20-25 cm, and then the operation step is repeatedly executed every four years. The water utilization efficiency and the annual yield are superior to those of a traditional cultivation mode.

The invention discloses a rainwater-collecting, water-storing and drought-resisting method for a fallow period of one-cropping-one-year dryland wheat zone. The method comprises the following steps: after former wheat cropping, deeply scarifying soil by using a deeply-scarifying and fertilizing integrated machine on rainy days in the first ten days and the middle ten days of July; deeply applying organic fertilizer while deeply scarifying; covering the deeply scarified land surface by straws; and performing rotary tillage, harrowing, leveling and collecting water, and chemically weeding once when necessary in the first ten days and the middle ten days of August. Compared with the prior art, by the method, soil water retention with the amount of 0-300cm can be increased before sowing winter wheat and the organic fertility of the soil can be improved; the method is simple in technical operation, high in practicality and obvious in water retention; tillage, fertilization and straw return are integrated, so that agricultural machinery and agronomy are organically combined, tillage, water retention, fertilization and water storage are coordinated, and thus aims of deeply storing middle-summer rainwater and utilizing the rainwater in other seasons are achieved; the method is widely applicable to loess plateau dryland wheat zones; and compared with the conventional tilling technology, by the method, the yield of wheat can be improved by about 15 percent under perennial production conditions.

The invention discloses a Trichoderma viride XJ-3 strain and a method for preparing a cotton stalk rotten organic fertilizer by using the same. The method comprises the following steps: carrying out strain separation, screening, breeding and domestication on a cotton land soil sample, carrying out rDNA ITS sequence determination and system development analysis to determine Trichoderma viride XJ-3 CGMCC NO.10989, inoculating into the pulverized cotton stalk (the length is 3-5cm and the water content is 60-65%), adding 30% of urea, 20% of diammonium and a strain protective agent, preparing the strain solution, urea, diammonium and strain protective agent into a fermentation base material, spraying on the pulverized stalk, carrying out fermentation after cotton land tilling and winter irrigation, and standing over the fermentative degradation time of 3 months from autumn to next spring. The method has outstanding technical effects in the aspects of increasing the cotton yield, enhancing the soil fertility and the like.

A shank assembly for an agricultural tillage implement including a support arm, a shank connected to the support arm, a point connected to the shank, and a float monitoring system. The float monitoring system includes a first sensor for sensing a home position, a second sensor connected to the support arm and configured for sensing an angular position of the support arm relative to the frame of the agricultural tillage implement, and an electronic control unit operably connected to the first sensor and the second sensor. The electronic control unit is configured for comparing the home position and the angular position of the support arm and determining a float of the shank as the shank is towed in a forward direction of travel.