Tag: no-till
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Building Roots for a More Water Secure California
Photo: NRCS Scientists Holding Up Two Soil Samples. US Department of Agriculture, Natural Resource Conservation Service The recently released National Climate Assessment discussed the impacts of climate change on our nation’s water supply and agricultural productivity. The levels of uncertainty regarding the future of our water supply are troubling. Changes in precipitation patterns will intensify…
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No-till farming can help save water, proponents say
Photo: No-till equipment at Garth Mulkey’s farm, originally designed to plant pumpkin seeds. The spiked wheels in the front push crop residue out of the way for the seed wheel to come behind it. The seed is then covered by the next spiked wheel. With dry weather at hand, no-till crops can absorb and retain…
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Can American soil be brought back to life?
Four generations of Jonathan Cobb’s family tended the same farm in Rogers, Texas, growing row upon row of corn and cotton on 3,000 acres. But by 2011, Cobb wasn’t feeling nostalgic. Farming was becoming rote and joyless; the main change from one year to the next was intensively planting more and more acres of corn…
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USDA: study finds no-till farming alone not sufficient to prevent water pollution from nitrate
photo: A no-till field. INDIANAPOLIS – A new IUPUI study funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture answers a long-debated agricultural question: whether no-tillage alone is sufficient to prevent water pollution from nitrate. The answer is no. Researchers in the Department of Earth Sciences in the School of Science at IUPUI conducted a meta-analysis to…
