URBANA, Ill. – For the past several decades, farmers have been abandoning their plows in favor of a practice known as no-till agriculture. Today, about one-third of U.S. farmers are no longer tilling ...

Cover crops provide benefits to vegetable farms of all sizes in addition to larger-scale contributions to the public good. Reduced tillage systems can provide additional soil health benefits. Many ...

Conservation tillage practices reduce soil loss from wind and water. These practices can also impact water quality. Not only can soil be a pollutant, it can also carry pollutants. This publication ...

Hariyo danda mathi haalo jotne sathi ho ho malee ho ho..." This popular Nepali folk song depicts the lifestyle of the Nepali farmers - getting up before sunrise to plow the field using traditional ...

A new study answers a long-debated agricultural question: whether no-tillage alone is sufficient to prevent water pollution from nitrate. The answer is no. A new IUPUI study funded by the U.S.

BROOKINGS, S.D. -- Unlike water erosion, tillage erosion is not strongly affected by slope length. Therefore, in hilly regions that have many changes in slope, tillage erosion can be the dominant ...

AMES, Iowa – A new study that combines survey data and cutting-edge computer modeling found a growing trend in tillage intensity in U.S. corn and soybean production in recent years has led to an ...

Researchers from the Agroecosystem Sustainability Center at the University of Illinois can detect soil tillage practices from space, weaving together data from ground images, airborne sensors and ...

Farmers and government agency watershed specialists use narratives to interpret and give meaning to the tension between farming practices and the impacts of management decisions on the environment. We ...