Michelin offers soil-protection tips

Michelin has released a free downloadable guide advising farmers and contractors how they can better protect their soil. The booklet is titled ‘Protect Your Soil’ and offers a range of hints and tips, from determining the different types of soil to ways to prevent soil damage by compaction.

Split into five sections, including chapters on the impact of tyres and the benefits of fitting tyres with Michelin’s Ultraflex technologies, the booklet offers a number of practical solutions for overcoming soil compaction.

“Trying to reduce soil compaction is at the forefront of many farmers’ and contractors’ minds and as such we wanted to produce an easy-to-use and interesting guide, that would help those in the agricultural industry better understand their soil, and the steps they need to take in order to reduce compaction,” said Mike Lawton, commercial director of Michelin’s Agriculture division.

Designed specifically for agricultural equipment, the full-patented Ultraflex tyre range includes the AxioBib and XeoBib tyres for use on tractors, CerexBib tyres for combine harvesters and SprayBib tyres for self-propelled sprayers.

Michelin’s ‘Protect Your Soil’ booklet can be downloaded here.