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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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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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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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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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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Mulch-till (redirect from Mulch tillage)
agriculture, mulch tillage (or mulch-till) is a seeding method where a hundred percent of the soil surface is disturbed by tillage, crop residues are...
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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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Leon Walter Tillage (January 19, 1936 – October 5, 2011) was an American whose autobiographical children's book Leon's Story (1997) features the effects...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It thrives in disturbed areas with compacted soils in full sun. Both tillage and herbicides are used in its control. This low-growing grass is capable...
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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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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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in farm fields often involves secondary tillage via harrows and cultivators. This may follow primary tillage (if any) by moldboard plows or chisel plows...
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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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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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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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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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the following: cellular confinement systems crop rotation conservation tillage contour plowing contour trenching cover crops fiber rolls (also called...
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traction to mechanize agricultural tasks, especially (and originally) tillage, and now many more. Agricultural implements may be towed behind or mounted...
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the land and are level. This method is also known for preventing tillage erosion. Tillage erosion is the soil movement and erosion by tilling a given plot...
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