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le discage

English translation: disc harrowing


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French term or phrase:le discage
English translation:disc harrowing
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Agriculture
French term or phrase: le discage
Actually, it has to do with the laying of lawns in landscaping. Les engrais organiques ou chimiques et les amendements sont melanges uniformement a la couche superficielle par des extirpations croises. Le discage et fraisage peut etre admis.
stephkg
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:33
disc harrowing
Explanation:
Tools for harrowing are commonly called harrows (plural) as they are used as a set. There are nominally three types of harrows; disc (disk), tine and chain. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrow_(tool)

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Note added at 7 hrs (2009-10-04 12:54:02 GMT)
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This might also be useful; it mentions "tillage" as well.
... and disk harrowing to 7.5 cm), or conventional tillage (CT) (seeding after disk plowing to 20-cm depth with nearly total soil inversion plus two disk ...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0167198797000263 -
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B D Finch
France
Local time: 10:33
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4 +3disc harrowing
B D Finch
3 -1core discing
desertfox


  

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59 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
core discing


Explanation:
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=20200148

desertfox
Israel
Local time: 11:33
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in HebrewHebrew

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Bourth: Or just disking (a form of harrowing).
4 hrs
  -> True. Thanks!

disagree  B D Finch: Core discing is about mining or mineral surveying, not about cultivating lawns.
6 hrs
  -> read the link I added.

disagree  Cetacea: I have read the link you've added, and not only is core discing a mining term, but the corresponding French term given in your link is "discage de carotte". Not the same thing...
6 hrs
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
disc harrowing


Explanation:
Tools for harrowing are commonly called harrows (plural) as they are used as a set. There are nominally three types of harrows; disc (disk), tine and chain. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrow_(tool)

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Note added at 7 hrs (2009-10-04 12:54:02 GMT)
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This might also be useful; it mentions "tillage" as well.
... and disk harrowing to 7.5 cm), or conventional tillage (CT) (seeding after disk plowing to 20-cm depth with nearly total soil inversion plus two disk ...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0167198797000263 -


    www.freefoto.com/.../07-36-6?...Disc+Harrowing -
B D Finch
France
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agree  Cetacea
37 mins
  -> Thanks Cetacea

agree  Linda Sansome
1 hr
  -> Thanks Linda

agree  Travelin Ann: it's what my grandfather, the farmer, called it.
8 hrs
  -> Thanks hooksett
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