Conservation Agriculture- International
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There is now worldwide consensus that plough-based farming, as still widely practised, has unsustainable elements, whose continued promotion and application endangers global capacities to respond to the food security concerns.
What is Sustainable Agriculture?
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There’s a transformation taking place on farms across the United States.
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Results from a nearly 30-year ongoing study show that no-till agriculture produces improved crop yields over the long-term.
What is sustainable farming?
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Sustainable farmingis the name for a loose set of agricultural practices that work together to sustain the economic viability of farming by working with natural processes rather than against them.
Gabe Brown, a city boy from Bismark, North Dakota bought the farm of his in-laws in 1991. The farm grew small grains, mostly spring wheat, oats, and barley, using the conventional farming practices Brown’s predecessors had followed since 1956 – tilling (plowing) the land to seed and applying synthetic fertilizers and herbicides annually.
Soil penalties for over-tillage
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I think many farmers who are tilling will admit that tillage can harm soil structure,” says Dr. John Grove, a long-time soil properties researcher at the University of Kentucky. “And farmers who have soils more sensitive to soil structure damage admit this more quickly.
