Reduced Tillage Farming Practices and Systems Agriculture

Reduced Tillage Farming Practices and Systems Agriculture

Reduced Tillage Farming

This name includes a group of practices that are also known as, or include, the following; conservation tillage; no-till farming; high-residue farming. It is based on minimal or no cultivation, and sowing directly into the ground after the removal of the previous crop. It often involves increased use of herbicides to control weed growth.

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- Information on conservation tillage practices in the Pacific Northwest.
- Sustainable cropping and direct seeding information, for Alberta. Site is sponsored by agribusiness companies.
- Brief information and a collection of links about the practice.
- Account of research showing lower rates of nitrate leaching from soil with reduced tilling practices.
- Providing the world's no-tillage farmers with ideas, inventions, techniques and industry news.
- Detailed FAO account of how soil erosion and other problems have been alleviated in Brazil.
- Information about reduced tillage and no tillage practices, links to publications.

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