Thursday, January 3, 2013

Soil Conservation

No-till farming is a system for planting crops without plowing. You use herbicides to control weeds, which results in less soil erosion and more nutrients are preserved. When plants die they are left in the soil to provide nutrients to new plants.
Source- "No-till farming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Jan. 2013. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-till_farming>.

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