FERGUS FALLS, Minn. - There are farmers who strip-till and those who no-till, but does anyone still do ridge-till? You bet, says St. Clair-area farmer Brian Loeffler. However, farmers don't think of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Ridge truncation methods affected weed populations, weed control, and corn yields in a ridge-tillage production system. Ridges were left ...

Weed seed and seedling populations, and weed competition were compared in plots of continuous corn and corn/soybean rotation under ridge and conventional tillage. After 7 to 8 yr of standard chemical ...

pCUTLINE; Arland Otte practices ridge tillage. The ridges range from 2 inches to 6 inches in height and serve as little dams. Janet Kubat Willette/Agri News December 12, 2002 at 5:00 AM Share Share ...

LAND degradation is one of the major problems facing agriculture today. The root cause of degradation of million of hectares is due to continuous decaying of soil structure, depletion of soil ...

The achievement represents a gain of 6 million acres, and it was the farmers in Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, South Dakota and Kansas who made it happen. Indiana's conservation tillage acreage was up ...