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No-till farming is not equivalent to conservation tillage or strip tillage. Conservation tillage is a group of practices that reduce the amount of tillage needed. No-till and strip tillage are both forms of conservation tillage. No-till is the practice of never tilling a field. Tilling every other year is called rotational tillage.
Edward Faulkner's 1943 book Plowman's Folly, [45] King's 1946 pamphlet "Is Digging Necessary?", [46] A. Guest's 1948 book "Gardening without Digging", [47] and Fukuoka's "Do Nothing Farming" all advocated forms of no-till or no-dig gardening. [48] No-till gardening seeks to minimise disturbance to the soil community so as to maintain soil ...
In comparison to no-till, which relies on the previous year's plant residue to protect the soil and aids in postponement of the warming of the soil and crop growth in Northern climates, zone tillage produces a strip approximately five inches wide that simultaneously breaks up plow pans, assists in warming the soil and helps to prepare a seedbed ...
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The origins of no-dig gardening are unclear, and may be based on pre-industrial or nineteenth-century farming techniques. [3] Masanobu Fukuoka started his pioneering research work in this domain in 1938, and began publishing in the 1970s his Fukuokan philosophy of "do-nothing farming" or natural farming, which is now acknowledged by some as the tap root of the permaculture movement.
No-dig gardening is a method of preparing a garden bed via the layering of hay, manure, soil and soil amendments. It is intensive and usually restricted to home or community garden applications. No-till is associated with broad-acre cropping and is related to minimizing soil disturbance rather than building layers. I agree. No merging.
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