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Tillage is the agricultural preparation of soil by mechanical agitation of various types, such as digging, stirring, and overturning. Examples of human-powered...

of biological methods to control pests, and minimum use of chemicals. Conservation tillage Reduced tillage No-till farming Strip-till Britannica v t e...

are targeting the application of best management practices such as reduced tillage, winter cover crops, plant residues and grass margins in order to better...

compared to intensive tillage systems. However, compared to no-till, strip-till may in some cases reduce soil moisture. In reduced tillage strategies, weed...

or intensive tillage typically leaves less than 15% of crop residues on a field, reduced tillage leaves 15–30%, and conservation tillage systems leave...

management practices such as zero and reduced tillage can be supplemented with specific crop rotation methods to reduce raindrop impact, sediment detachment...

known as zero tillage or direct drilling) is an agricultural technique for growing crops or pasture without disturbing the soil through tillage. No-till farming...

farming operation. Erosion control techniques such as windbreaks, reduced tillage or no-till, spreading straw (or other mulch on particularly susceptible...

by dissected leaves. Dog fennel thrives on roadsides, in fields and reduced tillage crops, as well as areas that have burned or otherwise been disturbed...

as reduced tillage, low phosphorus fertilizer usage, and perennialized cropping systems promote functional mycorrhizal symbiosis. Tillage reduces the...

including crop rotation, cover cropping, reduced tillage, and application of compost. By reducing fuel-intensive tillage, less soil organic matter is lost to...

Emerging in North America in the 1970s and 1980s, vertical tillage (VT) is a system of principles and guidelines similar to conservation agriculture (CA)...

few of the producers practicing environmentally friendly no-till or reduced tillage farming methods. There is also one winery and vineyard in the county...

(aeolian) erosion, zoogenic erosion and anthropogenic erosion such as tillage erosion. Soil erosion may be a slow process that continues relatively unnoticed...

Tillage erosion is a form of soil erosion occurring in cultivated fields due to the movement of soil by tillage. There is growing evidence that tillage...

are targeting the application of best management practices such as reduced tillage, winter cover crops, plant residues and grass margins in order to better...

"subsidence." Agricultural practices such as cover cropping and reduced tillage can significantly reduce subsidence, but can not reverse it. Muck soils are in essence...

arable land to grassland, straw incorporation, reduced tillage, straw incorporation combined with reduced tillage, ley cropping system and cover crops. Another...

greate toile or tilling". Modern researchers continue to study whether reduced tillage improves weed control and yield for strawberry plants. Other plants...

Environmental impacts such as eutrophication of fresh water are greatly reduced. Tillage, which removes essential microbes and nutrients from the soil, can...