Sentences with phrase «low tillage»
This is the fifth blog of a series describing the five methods that make up regenerative agriculture — perennial plants & diverse crops, zero / low tillage & mulching, cover cropping & crop rotation, composting, and managed grazing.
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Sustainable agricultural strategies comprising recycling of organic matter, tightening internal nutrient cycles, and low - or no - tillage practices may rebuild organic matter levels and reduce losses from the system.
Researchers found that seeds unearthed during tillage had a very low percentage of viability.
Methods such as accurate water measurement and soil moisture monitoring, laser - leveling fields, using conservation tillage to retain soil moisture, switching to low energy precision application sprinklers, lining canals, and employing subsurface drip irrigation where possible could save upwards of 40 percent of agriculture's water use while improving crop yields and saving energy.
However, N2O emissions from deep placement of N were obtained after other rainfall events, all indicating that deep placement reduced N2O emissions from zero till to levels as low as from N fertilizer incorporated in the surface layer in conventional tillage.
When the emissions from the two time periods were added up, the zero till had slightly lower total emissions than conventional till.However, the N fertilizer was surface applied in both tillage systems and incorporated in the conventional till system.
Mineralization of N is influenced by the mixing action of the tillage system, for tillage based systems mineralization peaks after tillage with low rates of mineralization between tillage operations.