Patent ID: 8291843

Claim:
An apparatus for cultivation of soil and planting of seeds, the apparatus comprising: a frame; a row of deep loosening tines carried by the frame, each deep loosening tine of the row of deep loosening tines comprising an elongate leg provided with a soil working formation at a base portion of the elongate leg; wherein, in use, the soil working formation drives through a soil surface to operate at a first depth of 100-450 mm; wherein the row of deep loosening tines is spaced across at least a major part of a width of the frame; an array of drill coulters carried by the frame and spaced across at least a major part of the width of the frame; wherein each of the deep loosening tines has positioned therebehind and associated therewith a plurality of pairs of drill coulters of the array of drill coulters; and wherein each drill coulter of a given pair of the plurality of pairs of drill coulters is laterally offset a same distance on either side of a deep loosening tine associated therewith.