Sandy soils are the most difficult to hold with emergency tillage as few clods are turned up and ridges that are formed breakdown rapidly. If tillage is needed on these types of soils, the entire field should be ridged. Later ridging, if necessary, should be progressively deeper and can be in or between the old furrow. Medium to fine textured soils Medium to fine textured soils respond more readily to emergency tillage than coarse textured soils. On these soil chisels can be used to produce a rough, cloddy surface.
Tillage can be solid or in strips.
Untilled strips should not be wider than twice the width of the tillage implement used. When it appears that the soil is about to begin blowing again, the alternate strips should be tilled. The yield reduction will be less than the damage if the field is allowed to erode. Ripping can be an effective control measure when a frozen soil seeded to winter cereals begins to drift. This can be done with a commercial subsoiler or ripper.