Tillage can help prevent some of the unwanted pathogens and insects that can breed in crop residue on a no till field. In some instances we also find erosion issues when a hillside field undergoes ...

Reducing or eliminating tillage is one of the farming practices most frequently touted to improve carbon sequestration in soil. A new study turns this paradigm on its head. This study, the result ...

“Unsurprisingly, the extent of minimum tillage employed varies widely between growers,” says Mr Townsend. But the majority (59%) now min-till all their cereals and oilseed rape, he notes.

Regardless, all of them had data showing some level of nutrient stratification – even those using minimum tillage methods. The feedback tells Calmer the issue isn’t tied to tillage practices ...

Plus, unlike horizontal tillage practices, vertical tillage doesn’t create any soil density layer, which can restrict root growth. “Root growth is what you’re after,” Reeder says.

Minimum tillage should be considered by most growers and not just the small numbers of large-scale farmers who have already adopted the practice, farmers at the Teagasc crops open day in Carlow ...

Furthermore, the reduction of soil disturbance from the practice of minimum tillage also preserves existing moisture in the soil allowing crops to benefit from this during the dry periods ...

A comprehensive modeling framework to evaluate soil erosion by water and tillage. Journal of Environmental Management, 2021; 279: 111631 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111631 ...

Jacqueline Comito, Jon Wolseth, Lois Wright Morton, Tillage Practices, the Language of Blame, and Responsibility for Water Quality Impacts in Row Crop Agriculture, Human Ecology Review, Vol. 19, No. 2 ...

The carryover of residual viable seeds from one season to the next was similar between the tillage systems. However, seed decay under no-till (48 to 60%) was much greater than under minimum tillage ...