No-till farming, a key conservation agriculture strategy that avoids conventional plowing and otherwise disturbing the soil, may not bring a hoped-for boost in crop yields in much of the world, ...

In a few years' time if the 2025 tillage income crisis is not sorted, the tillage sector will follow the horticulture sector ...

Thinking Outside the Box with No-Till Farming. Clip: Special | 8m 22s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Farmers and researchers in Reidsville see the positive impacts of no-till agriculture.

LANSING — Results from a nearly 30-year ongoing study show that no-till agriculture produces improved crop yields over the long-term. Tillage is the process of breaking up the soil to prepare it ...

Indeed, no-till farming comes with its fair share of critics. For one, the practice often requires a great deal more herbicides than average to manage weeds, especially early on. Jeff Moyer, Rodale ...

There is, of course, another way to farm. No-till farming is a practice that started to gain traction in the late ’70s, and has slowly picked up steam since then. Roger Claassen, agricultural ...

Organic farming can build up soil organic matter better than conventional no-till farming can, according to a long-term study. Organic farming, despite its emphasis on building organic matter, was ...

Tulsa World TULSA -- The blade is king in agriculture. Crop producers are surveying a lot of wet, weed-infested fields out there and can't wait to plow deep and heavy No-till farming has core of ...

BUCYRUS — For a region that has embraced no-till farming in a big way, there certainly seems to be lot of tilling going on this fall. The weather most likely has a lot to do with why a lot of ...

No-till also leaves residue that harbors slugs and snails that eat crops, discouraging farmers, Eash said. "However, all is not lost," Eash said. "Farmers just need more incentives for no-till." ...