Tag: tillage
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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…
