The digging, stirring and overturning of soil by conventional ploughing in tillage farming is severely damaging earthworm populations around the world, say scientists. The findings show a systematic ...

The digging, stirring and overturning of soil by conventional ploughing in tillage farming is severely damaging earthworm populations around the world, say scientists. The findings published in the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In temperate regions, reduced tillage is still not broadly accepted in organic farming although the guidelines often recommend the reduction ...

Modern farming habits boosting yields today may quietly strip soils of their resilience, threatening long-term fertility and food security.

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John Nowatzki remembers driving from Jamestown, N.D., to Cavalier, N.D., a trip of about 180 miles in central North Dakota, on a November afternoon in 2012. Along the way, Nowatzki, the North Dakota ...

When Martin Heydon addresses an IFA National Tillage Crisis Meeting on Friday, September 12 he will be told that even excellent weather and good yields have not been enough to leave a profit from ...

Thirteen finalists from across the country who are paving the way in sustainable practices were celebrated at the awards ceremony that took place in the Heritage Hotel, Co Laois, on Wednesday.

Speaking to the Irish Examiner at the National Ploughing Championships, Bobby Miller from the Irish Grain Growers Group said tillage farmers visiting the organisation's stand were in poor morale ...

A Wicklow tillage farmer has said that his sector is on its knees due to a combination of overbearing regulations, rock-bottom grain prices and the mass importation of feedstuffs from outside the EU, ...