WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Crop fields are taking the 2002 season hard, but it might not require a deep tillage operation to loosen them up. The wild weather extremes that compelled many farmers to plant ...

Several reduced tillage practices include vertical-till, strip-till, zone-till, and no-till. Reducing tillage means exactly what you think — making fewer passes through the field and/or decreasing the ...

Redesigned for its third generation, the Series 2310 Weatherproofer III tillage tool from Landoll Corporation is available in eight models ranging from 10' to 20' working widths. The 2310 lineup is ...

Many combinations of tillage methods are available for corn and soybean production. Currently much of the primary tillage is done in the fall. Deep tillage with the moldboard plow is still common, but ...

JUNEAU - When soils are moist, wheel traffic from combines and other harvest equipment can cause severe soil compaction in the field. As a means to alleviate compaction, some producers have turned to ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. - Montana State University Extension recommends that producers now applying urea fertilizer (46-0-0) protect it from volatilization loss (ammonia loss to the air) by sub-surface banding ...

First, the bad news: We’ve lost millions of tons of soil from croplands in the United States annually for the past 20 years due to water and wind erosion. The rate of erosion skyrockets the more soil ...

Extra-deep tillage isn't recommended in southern Minnesota, says Gyles Randall, soil scientist with the Southern Research and Outreach Center in Waseca. Corn and soybean production and profitability ...

Last summer, veteran organic farmer Scott Park was bewildered when he surveyed his vast tomato, corn, and sunflower fields. Before planting the crops on 350 acres he had radically cut down on tilling ...

Tillage is often seen as the organic alternative to chemical weed control. Tillage can be very effective at reducing weed populations, but can it be embraced as the solution to the weed problem? What ...