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    Tillage erosion is a form of soil erosion occurring in cultivated fields due to the movement of soil by tillage. There is growing evidence that tillage...
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    water erosion, glacial erosion, snow erosion, wind (aeolian) erosion, zoogenic erosion and anthropogenic erosion such as tillage erosion. Soil erosion may...
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    true; tillage causes soil to lose structural qualities that allow plant roots, water, and nutrients to penetrate it, accelerates soil loss by erosion, and...
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  • of soil erosion shown in many water erosion handbooks and pamphlets, the eroded hilltops, is actually caused by tillage erosion as water erosion mainly...
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    Professional in Erosion and Sediment Control Coastal management Dust Bowl Natural Resources Conservation Service (United States) Tillage erosion Universal Soil...
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  • to the assessment of tillage-related erosion in Europe. The main goal of the foundation is to collect data about tillage erosion, and is using that data...
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    No-till farming (redirect from Zero tillage)
    soil through tillage. No-till farming decreases the amount of soil erosion tillage causes in certain soils, especially in sandy and dry soils on sloping...
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    This method is also known for preventing tillage erosion. Tillage erosion is the soil movement and erosion by tilling a given plot of land. A similar...
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    soil lost from erosion by water. In areas that are highly susceptible to erosion, farm management practices such as zero and reduced tillage can be supplemented...
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    of a channel that can no longer be erased via normal tillage operations. Extreme gully erosion can progress to formation of badlands. These form under...
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    Strip-till (redirect from Strip tillage)
    conventional tillage systems. Conservation tillage Conservation Agriculture No-till farming Tillage erosion Brown, Eric. "Conservation Tillage Field Day...
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  • Most soil erosion models consider only soil erosion by water, however a few aim to predict wind erosion. Models which consider tillage erosion are rare...
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    Soil (section Erosion)
    nutrient and organic matter levels, reduced tillage and increased cover. These practices help to control erosion and maintain productivity during periods...
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  • as a base for determining the cost effectiveness of erosion control practices. Conservation tillage  This article incorporates public domain material from...
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    include crop rotation, cover crops, conservation tillage and planted windbreaks, affect both erosion and fertility. When plants die, they decay and become...
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    confidence). Soil erosion from agricultural fields is estimated to be currently 11 to 20 times (no-tillage) to more than 100 times (conventional tillage) higher...
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    wind-breaking trees to prevent wind erosion. The tillage of agricultural lands is one of the primary contributing factors to erosion, due to mechanised agricultural...
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    Emerging in North America in the 1970s and 1980s, vertical tillage (VT) is a system of principles and guidelines similar to conservation agriculture (CA)...
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    include crop rotation, cover crops, conservation tillage and planted windbreaks, affect both erosion and fertility. When plants die, they decay and become...
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  • reduced tillage in modern cropping systems. In general, leaving residues on the soil surface results in a mulching effect which helps control erosion, prevents...
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    agriculture Broadcast seeding Cattle creep Conventional tillage Common Agricultural Policy compost Corn Erosion Entomology Farm Fertilizer Food systems Farming...
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    levels with less residue. Tillage and burning are examples of management techniques that can harm soil organisms, resulting in erosion and the loss of organic...
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  • Temperature record of the past 1000 years Terminator Technology TERON (Tillage erosion) Terraforming Tetraethyllead Texas The China Syndrome The Nature Conservancy...
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  • Tilth (section Tillage)
    environmental factors such as changes in moisture, tillage and soil amendments. The objective of tillage (mechanical manipulation of the soil) is to improve...
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    (deforestation, tillage operations, exposure of bare soil surface to weather agents on excessively sloping grounds) favor surface soil erosion, causing small...
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  • Highly erodible land (category Erosion)
    cropland. Tillage erosion "7 C.F.R. Subpart B—Highly Erodible Land Conservation Title 7 - Agriculture". Justia.com. Retrieved 17 July 2011. "Soil Erosion" (PDF)...
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    agriculture are the use of heavy machineries, tillage practice itself, inappropriate choice of tillage systems, as well as livestock trampling. Use of...
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    rather than for the purpose of being harvested. Cover crops manage soil erosion, soil fertility, soil quality, water, weeds, pests, diseases, biodiversity...
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    particularly susceptible to erosion, especially wind erosion. Some techniques for conserving soil moisture (such as frequent tillage to kill weeds) are at odds...
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  • Vegetation and slope stability (category Soil erosion)
    generally limited to the top 1m of soil. Landslide Mudslide Surface runoff Tillage erosion Mattia, C.; Bishetti, G. & Gentile, F. 2005, ‘Biotechnical characteristics...
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