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no-till
(redirected from No-till farming)

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no-till (ntl)
n.
A system for planting crops without plowing, using herbicides to control weeds and resulting in reduced soil erosion and the preservation of soil nutrients.


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He noted things like no-till farming, changes in fertilizer use and application, shifts in livestock feeding or ways to reduce the manure and methane output from animals.
The answer to reversing that trend lies not in fertilizers and the cheap oil needed to produce them, the author asserts, but in no-till farming and other soil-conservation methods, such as reincorporating organic debris into existing soil.
won the crop production category for their 100 percent no-till farming operation.
 
 
 
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