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2. No-till farming - Wikipedia

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   No-till farming (also known as zero tillage or direct drilling) is an agricultural technique for growing crops or pasture without disturbing the soil through tillage. No-till farming decreases the amount of soil erosion tillage causes in certain soils, especially in sandy and dry soils on sloping terrain. Other possible benefits include an ...

3. Conor Crickmore - Wikipedia

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   Conor Crickmore (born February 3, 1970) is an American farmer, educator, and tool designer. In 2009, he started Neversink Farm, which is known for its no till methods and high production on small acreage. He also develops small scale farming tools through his company, Neversink Tools. Conor is a pioneer of No Till small production farming and ...

4. Strip-till - Wikipedia

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   Strip-till is a conservation system that uses a minimum tillage. It combines the soil drying and warming benefits of conventional tillage with the soil-protecting advantages of no-till by disturbing only the portion of the soil that is to contain the seed row. [1] This type of tillage is performed with special equipment [2] and can require the ...

5. List of agricultural machinery - Wikipedia

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   Agricultural equipment is any kind of machinery used on a farm to help with farming. The best-known example of this kind is the tractor. From left to right: John Deere 7800 tractor with Houle slurry trailer, Case IH combine harvester, New Holland FX 25 forage harvester with corn head. Unimog with a flail hedge and verge trimmer implement used ...

6. Harrow (tool) - Wikipedia

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   Harrow (tool) In agriculture, a harrow is a farm implement used for surface tillage. It is used after ploughing for breaking up and smoothing out the surface of the soil. The purpose of harrowing is to break up clods and to provide a soil structure, called tilth, that is suitable for planting seeds. Coarser harrowing may also be used to remove ...

7. Tillage - Wikipedia

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   Tillage is the agricultural preparation of soil by mechanical agitation of various types, such as digging, stirring, and overturning. Examples of human-powered tilling methods using hand tools include shoveling, picking, mattock work, hoeing, and raking. Examples of draft-animal-powered or mechanized work include ploughing (overturning with ...