How to Use tillage in a Sentence

tillage

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  • Her farm’s tillage practices are one way to keep carbon in the soil.
    — Danielle Echeverria, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Fall tillage — when farmers go through their fields and turn over all the dirt — may be delayed in some places by the snow.
    — Adam Belz, Star Tribune, 26 Oct. 2020
  • And fall tillage was 61% complete, three days ahead of last year and 12 days ahead of the five-year average.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Nov. 2021
  • And fall tillage was 59% complete, more than 4 weeks ahead of last year and nine days ahead of average.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2020
  • So, more plant matter less tillage = less CO2 in the atmosphere.
    — Sally McCabe, Philly.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • So, more plant matter + less tillage = less CO2 in the atmosphere.
    — Sally McCabe, Philly.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Bible manages 3,000 acres across his farms near Lafayette, on which he plants cover crops or practices no-tillage.
    — Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 8 Dec. 2017
  • One morning the farmer next door drove his tractor and tillage tool literally 10 yards from his tree stand.
    — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 3 Dec. 2019
  • By minimizing tillage, carbon is sequestered and stored in the soil.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Prior to the 1900s, weeds were tackled with plowing, or tillage, explains Liebhold.
    — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Soybean harvest and fall tillage were also late, both 18 days behind last year and 25 days behind the average.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Reducing tillage and burning of waste and cutting emissions from equipment could also lead to small health gains.
    — Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2021
  • The programs aim to keep vegetation growing nearly year round to withdraw more carbon from the atmosphere, and avoid tillage to keep carbon in the soil.
    — Jacob Bunge, WSJ, 24 June 2021
  • These fuels are made from edible crops such as corn and soy, which compete with our food supply and increase the demand on our land, leading to clearing and tillage.
    — Matthew Hayek, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2022
  • With the success of the summer harvest, Hands Free Hectare plans to continue its research into farming without any human tillage.
    — Spencer Feingold, CNN, 7 Oct. 2017
  • He’s a gardener, whose tillage happens to include some plants and fungi with mind-altering properties.
    — John Semley, The New Republic, 26 July 2021
  • Pigs, cows, chickens, and geese roam the vines at Hiyu, a world-class winery inspired by the philosophies of Japanese farmer Masanobu Fukuoka, who believed in farming without tillage or fertilizer.
    — Jennifer Konerman, Sunset Magazine, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Here are some basics on weed seed biology: Undisturbed weed seeds tend to persist longer than seeds subjected to periodic tillage.
    — oregonlive.com, 13 July 2019
  • To burn less fuel, he’s considered skipping a tillage pass, a maneuver whereby a tractor manipulates soil to enhance crop growth.
    — Cathy Bussewitz, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2022
  • To burn less fuel, he's considered skipping a tillage pass, a maneuver whereby a tractor manipulates soil to enhance crop growth.
    — Arkansas Online, 20 July 2022
  • No tilling Today, ditching tillage seems unfathomable, but ecosystems have long managed to produce robust growth without it.
    — Brian Barth, Popular Science, 1 Apr. 2020
  • The agreement allows use of shallow flooding, managed vegetation, gravel and tillage to contain and prevent dust emissions.
    — Louis Sahagúnstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2022
  • There are many promising ways to do this, such as maintaining plant cover on fields year-round; growing diverse crops that include high-nitrogen legumes and perennials with deep roots; and minimizing tillage.
    — Francesca Cotrufo, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Some of those tools include planting cover crops — a crop to manage soil erosion and fertility — or to practice no-till farming — where tillage is the act of agitating the soil by digging or overturning, for example.
    — Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 8 Dec. 2017
  • The farmers do as little soil digging as possible because traditional tillage destroys the fungal networks and the desirable soil structure.
    — Adrian Higgins, idahostatesman, 23 Aug. 2017
  • The farm's irrigation system relies on electricity instead of diesel fuel to power water pumps, and the farm tries to use minimum to no tillage, a practice that can be detrimental to soil quality over time.
    — Cristina Larue, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The latest Census of Agriculture estimated that farmers use no-tillage systems — planting crops directly into the land without digging or turning the soil — on about 100 million acres of cropland.
    — Linda Qiu, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Russell makes the case that more farmers need to embrace practices like extended crop rotation, conservation tillage, which means farmers would rarely or never till soil, and keeping the soil covered with winter and perennial crops.
    — Adam Brewster, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Organic oats typically rely on crop rotation, mulching and other low-tillage practices to reduce weeds and pest pressure, and are not sprayed with probable carcinogens.
    — Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Minimizing tillage is one practice that the USDA has highlighted as a way farmers can curb greenhouse-gas emissions, since tilling soil releases carbon into the atmosphere.
    — Jacob Bunge, WSJ, 1 May 2021

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