REDUCED SOIL TILLING HELPS BOTH SOILS AND YIELDS, STANFORD RESEARCHERS FIND
By monitoring crops through machine learning and satellite data, Stanford scientists have found farms that till the soil less can increase yields of corn and soybeans and improve the health of the soil – a win-win for meeting growing food needs worldwide.
“Reduced tillage is a win-win for agriculture across the Corn Belt,” said study lead author Jillian Deines, a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford’s Center on Food Security and the Environment. “Worries that it can hurt crop yields have prevented some farmers from switching practices, but we found it typically leads to increased yields.”
SOURCE: https://news.stanford.edu/2019/12/06/reduced-soil-tilling-helps-soils-yields/
