Sentences with phrase «less tillage»

In addition, however, agriculture's use of fossil energy could be reduced as a mitigation step, Rice said: «When we make agriculture more efficient and use less tillage, we're also using less energy.

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The industry claims that this farming system requires less skills and knowledge than the conventional farming system because farmers do not have to select among a range of herbicide active ingredients, carefully time their herbicide application and apply other non-chemical control practices such as plowing, deep tillage or manual weeding.
No - till and, to a lesser degree, conservation tillage maintains or improves soil quality by preserving soil structure and moisture, increasing soil organic matter, and providing habitat for soil microbes.
Some of these benefits led to reductions in the emission of the greenhouse gas (GHG) carbon dioxide (less fuel and machinery used than in conventional tillage systems).
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