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2. No-till farming - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Planter (farm implement) - Wikipedia

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   [1] [2] It is connected to the tractor with a drawbar or a three-point hitch. Planters lay the seeds down in precise manner along rows. Planters vary greatly in size, from 1 row to 54, with the biggest in the world being the 48-row John Deere DB120. Such larger and newer planters comprise multiple modules called row units. [1]

4. Disc harrow - Wikipedia

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   A disk harrow is a harrow whose cutting edges are a row of concave metal discs, which may be scalloped or set at an oblique angle. It is an agricultural implement that is used to till the soil where crops are to be planted. It is used to chop up unwanted weeds or crop residue. It is also one of the many soil cultivation implements alongside ...

5. Seed drill - Wikipedia

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   A direct seed drill aims to place the seed directly in the previous crop’s residues with minimal soil disruption (only 5-20% of the soil surface is cultivated) [2]. The drill must be set for the size of the seed used. After this the grain is put in the hopper on top, from which the seed grains flow down to the drill which spaces and plants ...

6. Crop rotation - Wikipedia

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   Polyculture systems, such as intercropping or companion planting, offer more diversity and complexity within the same season or rotation. An example is the Three Sisters, the inter-planting of corn with pole beans and vining squash or pumpkins. In this system, the beans provide nitrogen; the corn provides support for the beans and a "screen ...

7. Rice cultivation in Arkansas - Wikipedia

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   Large scale rice production in the state of Arkansas became a significant industry in the late 19th/early 20th century with its wide scale propagation within the state by entrepreneur W.H. Fuller around 1896. [2] Arkansas has historically been the largest rice producer in the entire United States, and accounted for nearly 45% of U.S. rice ...

8. Potato planter - Wikipedia

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   A potato planter is a farm implement for sowing seed potatoes. Hand potato planters, often referred to as foot-operated planters, are long-handled tools attached to a hinged "beak". The tuber is placed into the planter-beak and penetrated into the ground by means of stepping on the planter base with the foot.

9. Organic farming - Wikipedia

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   However, a 2007 study by the USDA's Agricultural Research Service has found that manure applications in tilled organic farming are better at building up the soil than no-till. [ 195 ] [ 196 ] Gunsmoke Farms, a 137 square kilometres (53 square miles) organic farming project in South Dakota , suffered from massive soil erosion as result of tiling ...