Planting is done on the ridge top.
As a reduced tillage system, ridge tillage maintains or improves yields of corn and soybeans over a wide range of soil types while reducing soil loss, labor and machinery costs. Any cropping system that promises to maintain production while reducing costs should be considered by farmers. Ridge tillage is a relatively simple tillage system. The crop is planted on the same ridges, in the same rows, year after year. The primary tillage tool is a row-crop cultivator that can form ridges.