Conservation Tillage

Tractor Using Conservation Tillage Regular conventional tillage provides a smooth, unridged soil surface that can encourage serious runoff and erosion problems on sloping crop land. Instead, conservation tillage is any tillage planting system that leaves at least 30% of the field surface covered with crop residue after planting is completed and involves reduced or minimum tillage. There are several types of conservation tillage currently being used in the Midwest Corn Belt as effective BMPs. They include:
  1. no-till planting
  2. strip rotary tillage
  3. till planting
  4. annual ridges
  5. chiseling
  6. disking

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