Tillage is the agricultural preparation of soil by mechanical agitation of various types, such as digging, stirring, and overturning. Examples of human-powered...
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tillage method that does not turn the soil over, in contrast to intensive tillage, which changes the soil structure using ploughs. In minimum tillage...
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No-till farming (redirect from Zero tillage)
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...
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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...
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Conventional tillage refers to tillage operations considered standard for a specific location and crop and that tend to bury the crop residues; usually...
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Strip-till (redirect from Strip tillage)
conservation system that uses a minimum tillage. It combines the soil drying and warming benefits of conventional tillage with the soil-protecting advantages...
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Soil erosion (section Tillage erosion)
(aeolian) erosion, zoogenic erosion and anthropogenic erosion such as tillage erosion. Soil erosion may be a slow process that continues relatively unnoticed...
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sector also includes wool, egg and dairy production, the livestock used for tillage, and fish farming. Animal agriculture is a significant contributor to greenhouse...
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Cropping system (section Tillage)
or intensive tillage typically leaves less than 15% of crop residues on a field, reduced tillage leaves 15–30%, and conservation tillage systems leave...
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Tillage Live is the United Kingdom's largest national cultivations event (agricultural show). The show focuses on all aspects of crop establishment. It...
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Emerging in North America in the 1970s and 1980s, vertical tillage (VT) is a system of principles and guidelines similar to conservation agriculture (CA)...
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as a rotavator) is a piece of agricultural equipment used for secondary tillage. One sense of the name refers to frames with teeth (also called shanks)...
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The Tillage Act 1597 (39 Eliz. 1. c. 2) was an act of the Parliament of England passed during the reign of Elizabeth I. Francis Bacon introduced the bill...
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List of fertility deities (redirect from Goddess of tillage)
A fertility deity is a god or goddess associated with fertility, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, and crops. in some cases these deities are directly associated...
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The optimum water content for tillage (OPT) is defined as the moisture content of soil at which tillage produces the largest number of small aggregates...
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Mechanical weed control (section Tillage)
controlled. Tillage, also known as cultivation, is the turning over of the soil. This method is more often used in agricultural crops. Tillage can be performed...
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self-propelled sprayers, smart farming technologies, seeding equipment, and tillage equipment. AGCO was established on June 20, 1990 when Robert J. Ratliff...
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Leon Walter Tillage (January 19, 1936 – October 5, 2011) was an African American whose autobiographical children's book Leon's Story (1997) features the...
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dedicated to the assessment of tillage-related erosion in Europe. The main goal of the foundation is to collect data about tillage erosion, and is using that...
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advantages over other common practices for weeds management, such as tillage. Tillage is meant to inhibit growth of weeds by overturning the soil; however...
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primarily as threshing engines. With little serviceable equestrian equipment, tillage, sowing, and harvesting of all crops were mostly carried out manually....
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Kinze Manufacturing, Inc. (section Tillage)
Kinzenbaw (Founder, CEO, Chairman) Suzanne Kinzenbaw Veatch (President) Products Row crop planter Grain carts Tillage equipment Website www.kinze.com...
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substantial part is retained in the soil in the form of soil organic matter; tillage usually increases the rate of soil respiration, leading to the depletion...
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animal feed or as a soil ripper are "forage radish", "fodder radish", and "tillage radish". In Hong Kong, the misnomer turnip is also used. This name lends...
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a true plow, which does primary tillage and leaves behind a rough surface, whereas the second is a secondary tillage tool. Before invention of the modern...
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The Kurmis came to be known for their exceptional work ethic, superior tillage and manuring, and gender-neutral culture, bringing praise from Mughal and...
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Soybean management practices (section Tillage)
decisions a producer must make in order to raise a soybean crop. The type of tillage, plant population, row spacing, and planting date are four major management...
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areas with a slope greater than 11%, it is also recommended that zero tillage or cane strip planting are implemented to help prevent soil loss. Sugarcane...
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soil (pH 6 or 7) such as a sandy loam. The soil is prepared using deep tillage, for example with a chisel plow or ripper. In areas where irrigation is...
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