When I was farming our family farm, I chiseled half the farm every fall, so the entire farm got chiseled every two years. This is river bottom ground prone to compaction. My theory was if the soil is loosened up, moisture will soak down deeper and then if you get a dry spell the soil will be loose and plant's roots will be easily able to grow downward to seek moisture.
When I quit farming and leased the farm ground to a friend on shares, he was enamored with no-till and refused to chisel, on the theory that the more often you opened the ground, the more moisture you lost.
We got into a big argument about it after a couple of years. I told him, "Let's try an experiment. Make two rounds with a chisel plow across the middle of one field. Then next summer we'll see if we can notice a difference". He refused to do even that.
I then told him I'd cash rent it to him and he could do whatever the hell he wanted with it. So we did.
One fall four or five years later, with no further conversation, he suddenly chiseled the entire farm, and then went onto my rotation.
The bottom line is, there's no "one size fits all". You need to know your own soil and what works.
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