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 you wrap up harvest this year, the work isn’t quite over. With the end of one season, you beckon in a new one with the way you treat the soil and prepare it for spring planting just a few short ...

Reducing tillage is one approach used to build the benefits of a healthier soil - like reducing erosion and better water management. But, leaving some extra residue on the surface can be daunting in ...

Field studies were conducted in 2001 and 2002 to determine the effect of tillage on the emergence of common waterhemp from the soil seedbank. Emergence of common waterhemp was three times greater in ...

Conservation tillage does not lower yield in modern cropping systems. Just as we blend, cut, and fold ingredients together to follow a recipe, farmers use equipment to stir together soil and crop ...

ANOTHER machinery manufacturer is keen to get the tillage message out there, with distributor PFG conducting demonstrations for its Great Plains Turbo Max cultivator. The vertical tillage machine, ...

Great Plains, Salina, Kansas, has introduced its truevertical tillage implement, the VT1100 Turbo-Max. The new VT1100 Turbo-Max has been redesigned to further its agronomic benefits, while building on ...