tillage

The news is the usage of fiberoptics to do the measurement, and prove the effects of tillage scientifically.

So if you want to raise cereals and vegetables, you have to choose: tillage or chemical use.

Can you explain the benefits of tillage, or are you arguing that it has no benefits?

Zero / minimal tillage has been a thing for decades, im surprised this is news.

Native grass is the only thing that grows well and reliably on the majority of North American farmland without tillage or chemicals.

Soil loss and desertification is generally caused by excessive tillage, not by chemical use.

Generally, there are the following methods: Mechanical tillage, breaking up soil to make it easier for plants to grow and spread roots.

So you deal with it, and start again building the soil back from tillage.

There are circumstances and soil types that encourage tillage, usually dealing with water.

The title manages to both confuse tillage with plowing, and bury the lede.

The other replies make fair points, but tillage does still have it's uses.

A mulch cultivator that seems like a robust and competitive tillage implement.

I'm further accepting my role in the food cycle, and realizing that things die at every stage of food production- even "vegan" food production, whether it's insects that must be removed from crops, animals displaced by tillage, fertilizers made from fish emulsion, and the squirrels that the semi trucks run over on their way to deliver pallets of Veggie Burgers to Whole Foods...

Tillage as a practice has existed for around 10,000 years.

Tillage before motorized agriculture was much more superficial.