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 ...

RENVILLE - It doesn't matter whether she's grubbing around in farm fields or road ditches, or peering from the relative comfort of a tractor cab. The information that Jodi DeJong-Hughes of the ...

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 ...

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 ...