Teagasc is confirming that winter cereals are well established this season thanks to earlier sowing and good growth up to ...

Several reduced tillage practices include vertical-till, strip-till, zone-till, and no-till. Reducing tillage means exactly what you think — making fewer passes through the field and/or ...

It’s all go in the tillage fields this week as fine weather has taken over the weather charts to give farmers a great chance ...

On this week’s tillage podcast, we get down to practical agronomy on fertiliser, herbicides and fungicides and we hear from ...

Since the first farmers tilled the soil more than 10,000 years ago, the plow has been the essential tool of human survival.

All signs point to incentives for farmers to reduce tillage and grow cover crops. Some farmers will factor these incentives into their profit/loss statements, which will be a game changer.

The recent spring tillage meeting, hosted by Teagasc in Co. Donegal, ticked many important boxes for growers . There was a ...

John Deere has introduced a next-generation perception system, expanding autonomous capabilities for select 9R, 9RX, 8R, and ...

More information: Cong Wang et al, No-tillage practice enhances soil total carbon content in a sandy Cyperus esculentus L. field, Ecological Processes (2025). DOI: 10.1186/s13717-024-00573-x ...