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:
- no-till planting
- strip rotary tillage
- till planting
- annual ridges
- chiseling
- disking
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