www.sare.org publications building-soils-for-better-crops minimizing-tillage Ch 16. Minimizing Tillage ...Tillage Systems Tillage systems can be classified by the amount of surface residue left on the soil surface. Conservation tillage systems leave more than 30% of the soil surface covered...
www.sare.org publications building-soils-for-better-crops putting-it-all-together Ch 24. Putting It All Together ...tillage. Table 24.1 Balance Sheet for Soil Health Management*Practice or condition Improves soil health Reduces soil health Tillage moldboard plowing chisel plowing disking harrowing conservation tillage X XX X X...
www.sare.org publications building-soils-for-better-crops reducing-runoff-and-erosion Ch 14. Reducing Runoff and Erosion ...change: Agronomic measures help control erosion while also improving soil health and crop productivity. Significant advances have been made in farm machinery and methodologies for conservation tillage systems that make...
www.sare.org publications building-soils-for-better-crops compaction Ch 15. Addressing Compaction ...Reducing surface layer compaction through proper use of tillage. Tillage can either cause or lessen problems with soil compaction. Repeated intensive tillage reduces soil aggregation and compacts the soil over...
www.sare.org publications building-soils-for-better-crops amount-of-organic-matter-in-soils Ch 3. Amount of Organic Matter in Soils ...organic matter loss slows and what remains is mainly the already well-decomposed “passive” or “very dead” materials. With the current interest in reduced (“conservation”) tillage, growing row crops in the...
www.sare.org publications building-soils-for-better-crops soil-degradation Ch 6. Soil Degradation: Erosion, Compaction, and Contamination ...mountainous areas, typically have shallow-rooted grasses and may readily experience slumping. With certain soil types, landslides can become liquefied and turn into mudslides. Tillage Erosion Figure 6.6. Effects of tillage...
www.sare.org publications building-soils-for-better-crops soil-health-plant-health-and-pests Ch 8. Soil Health, Plant Health and Pests ...process. Weed seed predation by ground beetles is encouraged by reduced tillage and maintenance of surface residues. Reduced tillage also keeps the weed seeds at the soil surface, where they...
www.sare.org publications building-soils-for-better-crops diversifying-cropping-systems Ch 11. Diversifying Cropping Systems ...slower than the decrease that occurred under continuous tillage because rotations that include perennials reduce the total amount of tillage and the associated soil organic matter losses. A long-term cropping...
www.sare.org publications building-soils-for-better-crops management-of-nitrogen-and-phosphorus Ch 19. Management of Nitrogen and Phosphorus ...infiltrate into soils. When runoff does occur, less sediment is carried along with it than when conventional plow-harrow tillage is used. Reduced tillage, by decreasing runoff and erosion, usually decreases...
www.sare.org publications building-soils-for-better-crops cover-crops Ch 10. Cover Crops ...levels and an increase of soil nitrogen by 12.8%. The longer the cover crop grows and the less tillage that is used, the greater the increase in soil organic matter....