tillage
tillage
Definition
tillage
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- land: Improvements as regards tillage of the land have been lately introduced with very beneficial results.
Converse of object
- reduce: GM herbicide-tolerant crops have also promoted the adoption of farming practices that reduce tillage or eliminate it altogether.
- use: Our range of cultivation equipment enables us to use minimum tillage or plow based systems to maximize versatility and optimize timeliness.
Adjective modifier
- reduced: Of particular interest were the data he gave on the positive effects of reduced tillage.
- minimum: At the same time they've switched entirely to minimum tillage.
- conventional: Conventional tillage, which depletes soil organic matter and creates the conditions for erosion is a major cause.
- mechanical: It builds up as mechanical tillage is reduced and it decreases with increasing mechanical tillage.
- less: Shorter rotations, earlier winter drilling, lower seed rates and less total inversion tillage inevitably mean growing pressures from the weed.
- repeated: In root crops, control is by repeated surface tillage in hot, dry weather.
Modifies a noun
- practice: The study said the adoption of conservation tillage practices has: Saved nearly 1 billion tons of soil per year.
- operation: Management: Normal tillage operations should keep the weed within bounds.
- technique: Minimum tillage techniques have become popular over the recent decades due to the benefits they can bring to farm rotations.
- system: In reduced tillage systems seed numbers increase in the upper 15 cm of soil.
- method: Use of minimum tillage methods and early drilling is also instrumental.
- regime: In a comparison of different tillage regimes, parsley piert was favored by reduced cultivations.
Noun used with modifier
- conservation: In vulnerable areas in the USA, conservation tillage has reduced erosion by up to 95 % .
- inversion: Shorter rotations, earlier winter drilling, lower seed rates and less total inversion tillage inevitably mean growing pressures from the weed.
- surface: In root crops, control is by repeated surface tillage in hot, dry weather.
- mulch: Other methods and strategies: mulch tillage, killed mulch tillage and living mulches.
- ridge: Of the three conservation measures tested, bench terraces are the most effective in erosion control, followed by ridge tillage and grass strips.
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