tillage

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"Ultimately, we need a more diversified agricultural model, with fewer cattle, and more horticulture, organics and tillage," he told AFP.

From Barron's • Nov. 11, 2025

Intense tillage is known to be bad for worms.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 26, 2023

The money would provide farmers with technical and financial assistance to implement practices like planting cover crops or reducing soil tillage.

From Reuters • May 2, 2023

With crops grown in farm fields, more intensive management means a reduction in the diversity of crops grown, combined with increased application of nutrients and use of mechanical soil tillage on the farm.

From Salon • Dec. 26, 2022

There is now good reason to expect that in 1918 the tillage area in the United Kingdom will exceed that of 1916 by over 3,000,000 acres.

From Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various