Tillage is the practice of digging up, turning over or otherwise agitating the soil with mechanical tools—typically a plow or disc. Tilling breaks up soil compaction, helps eliminate weeds, and incorporates cover crops for boosted soil fertility. While these are important benefits, but tillage also leaves soil vulnerable to erosion and destroys important fungal networks underground. Tillage is also fuel and labor intensive.
No-till farming is a way of growing crops or pasture from year to year without disturbing the soil through tillage. No-till is an agricultural technique that increases the amount of water that infiltrates into the soil, the soil's retention of organic matter and its cycling of nutrients. In many agricultural regions, it can reduce or eliminate soil erosion. It increases the amount and variety of life in and on the soil. The most powerful benefit of no-tillage is improvement in soil biological fertility, making soils more resilient. Farm operations are made much more efficient, particularly improved time of sowing and better traffic-ability of farm operations.
Crops are planted with specialized equipment. The district has available for rent two no-till corn planters, two no-till seeders and one interseeder. Our No-Till program specialist delivers the equipment to your farm, assists in setting up the planter and returns to move the equipment when finished to the next operation. Call Peter at 570-575-9978 for more information.
No-till farming is a way of growing crops or pasture from year to year without disturbing the soil through tillage. No-till is an agricultural technique that increases the amount of water that infiltrates into the soil, the soil's retention of organic matter and its cycling of nutrients. In many agricultural regions, it can reduce or eliminate soil erosion. It increases the amount and variety of life in and on the soil. The most powerful benefit of no-tillage is improvement in soil biological fertility, making soils more resilient. Farm operations are made much more efficient, particularly improved time of sowing and better traffic-ability of farm operations.
Crops are planted with specialized equipment. The district has available for rent two no-till corn planters, two no-till seeders and one interseeder. Our No-Till program specialist delivers the equipment to your farm, assists in setting up the planter and returns to move the equipment when finished to the next operation. Call Peter at 570-575-9978 for more information.