A different view on soil cultivation and dealing with the soil and soil life inspires manufacturers to offer different ...

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 decreasing the ...

While manually hoeing weeds out of crops can be very time- and labor-intensive, spraying those crops with herbicides is definitely not eco-friendly. A German consortium is developing a third choice, ...

A desire to improve his farming operations has resulted in iPad apps and farm equipment that have all eventuated from the notion “there’s got to be a better way to do this”. The no-till farmer runs a ...

Bob Swinburn is project managing the expansion at the Oakdene Vineyard on the Bellarine Peninsula. “We chose mechanical control as I had witnessed in my previous tasks as a consultant to vineyards in ...

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Lemken has updated its range of high-speed Rubin compact disc harrows in a bid to reduce tractor fuel consumption and improve bout accuracy. Central to the changes on the Rubin 10 is a new disc layout ...

WHERE is the folly? Mr. Faulkner declares it to be with ploughmen who bury green manures, weeds and stubbles many inches below the surface. He is of the opinion that ploughing places such material out ...