Several reduced tillage practices include vertical-till, strip-till, zone-till, and no-till. Reducing tillage means exactly what you think — making fewer passes through the field and/or decreasing the ...

As farmers gather the bounty of one crop their minds are thinking about the next one. For some, that starts with a tillage game plan. “I would first ask: Why do I need tillage? And why do fall tillage ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - After a wet fall and spring, corn and soybean farmers must decide what field tillage operations are essential before planting the 2009 crop. "Where I think things are a little ...

Last summer, veteran organic farmer Scott Park was bewildered when he surveyed his vast tomato, corn, and sunflower fields. Before planting the crops on 350 acres he had radically cut down on tilling ...

Extra-deep tillage isn't recommended in southern Minnesota, says Gyles Randall, soil scientist with the Southern Research and Outreach Center in Waseca. Corn and soybean production and profitability ...