An innovative approach to farming practices is now currently being tested in Alberta to ascertain if it offers attractive advantages to producers.
Known as controlled-traffic farming (CTF), this process is a crop-production system with permanent traffic lanes where machinery tires travel each year. This approach restricts soil compaction to the permanent lanes and reduces the area of the field that is compacted compared to random traffic, resulting in improved crop yields. CTF uses a machinery system where as much as possible, all machinery uses a similar wheel gauge, the distance between wheels across the machine.