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

Building more cutting-edge machinery, such as a driverless tillage tractor, appealed to 54-year-old Mukesh Agarwal who was recruited by CNH from Microsoft in July 2021, before the latest layoffs.

From Reuters • Feb. 13, 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

John Newman may be said to hold a virgate, to join with his plough-oxen in the tillage of twenty acres, to attend at three boon-days in harvest time, and so forth.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul