Almost 50 years ago, Michigan farmer Don Morse put conservation tillage to the test on his 3,100 acres, years before the federal government began offering subsidies to farmers as an incentive to ...

Such tillage is expected to be used on 103 million acres this year (more than one-third of U.S. planted cropland), up from 72 million acres in 1989, according to the Conservation Technology ...

Modern conservation tillage practices protect the soil and environment. For example, they can reduce erosion from water or wind and keep nutrients in the right place.

The share of acreage for major cash crops—wheat, corn, soybeans, and cotton—that are planted using conservation tillage has increased over the past two decades in the United States.

February 1998 Conservation tillage numbers plow conventional acres under WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Nationally, conservation tillage acres outstripped conventional acres for the first time ever last ...

Conservation tillage practices reduce soil loss from wind and water. These practices can also impact water quality. Not only can soil be a pollutant, it can also carry pollutants. This publication ...

Many of today’s farmers are transitioning to some sort of conservation tillage. 38% of U.S. planted acres in 2004 used a conservation tillage method, according to the USDA. No-Till ...

We put a few conservation tillage practices to the test at the Soil Health and Agriculture Research Extension Farm in Mooreton, N.D. In 2015, we set up field-scale plots at the SHARE Farm.

Conservation tillage is getting more popular around the globe. It is a system where around 30 per cent of crop residues from the previous harvest are left on the soil's surface.

Even in `no-tillage system, the soil is opened by coulters, row cleaners, disc openers, in-row chisels or tillers prior to planting seed. In conservation tillage at least 30 per cent of the soil ...

ADA — The Conservation Tillage and Technology Conference will be Tuesday, March 11 and Wednesday, March 12 at Ohio Northern University, 402 W. Main St., Ada.

Modern conservation tillage practices protect the soil and environment. For example, they can reduce erosion from water or wind and keep nutrients in the right place.