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The plow serves three different functions.

First, it turns over the soil killing the current vegetation. That prepares the ground so the desired crop can be planted. If you threw your seeds on land already full of plants, they simply would not grow.

Second, it broke up the soil so air would get to the roots of the new plants and rain would soak into the ground. Water would not simply wash away.

Third, it turned over the soil so that weed seeds on the ground were plowed under and when crop seeds were planted they would be on the ground or just underneath. Thus, crop seeds would start out higher than weed seeds.

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