Top Compact Tractor Attachments to Prepare for Fall Planting
9/18/2025
Summer is in its waning days, and cooler fall weather is beginning to take shape. Although fall can sometimes feel like the end of a long season of work, for many farmers and property owners, it's just the beginning of a new busy season.
Fall planting season is coming up soon, and if you want to be as prepared as you can be for the weather change, then you need to explore these helpful compact tractor attachments that can boost your productivity and help you produce a more impressive fall harvest. Here are our picks for the top compact tractor attachments for fall planting.
Disc harrows are great for cutting through old crop residue and incorporating the organic matter back into your soil. If you care about organic farming or using cover crops in your farming practices, then a disc harrow attachment is a great way to provide added nutrients to your soil. Disc harrows use multiple rotating blades to shred old crops, move them into your soil, and prepare a perfect seedbed for fall planting.
A box blade is the perfect attachment for leveling soil, backfilling, or creating smooth planting surfaces. It’s a very simple, yet super effective tool for preparing soil beds for fall planting. The adjustable cutting edge on box blades helps to establish proper grading for drainage as well, so you don’t have to worry about flooded fields during heavy fall rains.
Frontier attachments make a few different box blades, like the BB20 and larger BB50 Series box blades. Different-width blades provide more effective coverage of your fields, making ground leveling very easy in the late summer and fall.
There’s nothing worse than hard, compacted soil when you’re ready to get planting. That’s why I good tiller is so important. Tillers break up compacted soil and help to mix in organic matter like compost and fallen leaves into the planting bed. All that organic goodness can help to nourish your soil and produce higher crop yields. Explore some of the rotary tillers from Frontier, including the RT12, RT20, and RT30.
Are you dealing with debris and other nuisances in your planting area? A landscape rake might help you out. These simple tools help to remove rocks, debris, and even old roots in your planting bed. They also help to create a fine seedbed texture that is ideal for fall seeding of crops like carrots, beets, and other vegetables with small seeds.
Sometimes your planting area isn’t as clean as you need it to be, especially when summer overgrowth or fallen branches create obstacles. If you need to clear out your planting area before fall planting, then a grapple attachment can be a big help. Grapples attach to the front of your compact utility tractor, and can pick up larger objects like branches, logs, and even brush, and move them out of the way. You can even use a grapple to move large amounts of fallen leaves! Grapples with closer tines, or jaws, tend to work better by preventing leaves from falling through.
Although post hole digger attachments are more commonly thought of when it comes to fence building, they can also be reliable tools for tree and shrub planting in the fall. If your fall crops consist of apple trees, blueberry bushes, or other fruiting trees and shrubs, fall is the best time to establish these crops for future harvests. Use a post hole digger attachment to quickly dig a symmetrical hole for your plant.
Fall is a busy time for many farmers in Tennessee, and at Tennessee Tractor, we’d like to help you make the most of your fall planting period. Find great compact tractor attachments, from grapples to box blades and post hole diggers, at your local Tennessee Tractor dealership. We have locations throughout West Tennessee, from Jackson to Somerville to Paris.