1
: the operation of tilling land
2
: cultivated land
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Acres with reduced tillage – which cuts runoff – rose 27% during that time, and no-till was up 9%.
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Erin Jordan, Journal Sentinel, 2 July 2024
In Kentucky, farmers are planting colorful cover crops, abstaining from disturbing the soil through tillage and embracing other conservation practices to help stave off erosion and protect water quality — both in local waterways and a thousand miles downstream.
—Janet Wilson, USA TODAY, 27 June 2024
And insect-resistant and herbicide-tolerant GMO plants have reduced tractor use for insecticide spraying and tillage, dramatically cutting yearly greenhouse gas emissions.
—Emma Kovak, Foreign Affairs, 17 Nov. 2021
Planting cover crops, reducing tillage and minimizing fertilizer application are also solutions to other environmental challenges like water pollution from fertilizer run-off that contributes to the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.
—Karina Atkins, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2024
The winter spreading of waste feed and tillage — both legal — duped the model, according to a spreadsheet of outcomes obtained through a public records request.
—Bennet Goldstein, Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
By introducing vegetation, gravel, tillage and shallow flooding, the department has reduced air pollution by 99% and brought a measure of peace in the rural valley where people have long had bitter feelings toward Los Angeles.
—Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2024
The family farms of new England were part of a widespread agrarian culture dominated by livestock and tillage fields that began with European settler colonialism in the early 17th century and required many fences to manage separate parcels of land.
—Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
By minimizing tillage, carbon is sequestered and stored in the soil.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Apr. 2023
Erin Jordan, Journal Sentinel, 2 July 2024
In Kentucky, farmers are planting colorful cover crops, abstaining from disturbing the soil through tillage and embracing other conservation practices to help stave off erosion and protect water quality — both in local waterways and a thousand miles downstream.
—Janet Wilson, USA TODAY, 27 June 2024
And insect-resistant and herbicide-tolerant GMO plants have reduced tractor use for insecticide spraying and tillage, dramatically cutting yearly greenhouse gas emissions.
—Emma Kovak, Foreign Affairs, 17 Nov. 2021
Planting cover crops, reducing tillage and minimizing fertilizer application are also solutions to other environmental challenges like water pollution from fertilizer run-off that contributes to the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.
—Karina Atkins, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2024
The winter spreading of waste feed and tillage — both legal — duped the model, according to a spreadsheet of outcomes obtained through a public records request.
—Bennet Goldstein, Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
By introducing vegetation, gravel, tillage and shallow flooding, the department has reduced air pollution by 99% and brought a measure of peace in the rural valley where people have long had bitter feelings toward Los Angeles.
—Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2024
The family farms of new England were part of a widespread agrarian culture dominated by livestock and tillage fields that began with European settler colonialism in the early 17th century and required many fences to manage separate parcels of land.
—Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
By minimizing tillage, carbon is sequestered and stored in the soil.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Apr. 2023
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tillage
noun
till·age
ˈtil-ij 
1
: the process of tilling land
2
: cultivated land
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