Geologist says the effects of tillage should be incorporated into the USDA’s erosion estimates, so the agency's numbers might better align with the 57.6 billion metrictons of soil that the researchers estimate has been lost across the Midwest in the last 160 years.
Stanford scientists have found farms that till the soil less can increase yields of corn and soybeans and improve the health of the soil by monitoring crops through machine learning and satellite data.
Tillage might result in some sort-term gains, but soil scientist Jay Fuhrer warns that the practice causes long-term damage to healthy soil’s best friend — fungi.
University College Dublin reports that conventional tillage is severely damaging earthworm populations around the world, and the deeper the soil is disturbed, the more harmful it is to earthworms.
After comparing cotton under no-till, strip-till and conventional tillage rotations, an environmental soil scientist says he's seeing greater water infiltration rates following cover crops and crop rotation regardless of tillage.
Because of widespread drought conditions experienced over the past year, many growers are concerned about the potential for carryover injury from herbicides applied in 2012 to the crops they will plant in 2013.
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