tillage

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Tillage machines that break up and aerate the soil and machines that fertilize it use diesel.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2022

Tillage is essentially plowing without turning the soil over.

From Washington Post • Sep. 27, 2019

But Jodi DeJong-Hughes of the University of Minnesota Tillage Program, warned that no-till isn't for everyone.

From US News • Aug. 4, 2016

Tillage is also a factor in soil erosion, especially on slopes, because each time the soil is lifted by a cultivator, it is moved a few centimetres down the slope.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Tillage has been practiced on other crops than trees for so long that we think of it almost as a custom.

From Apple Growing by Burritt, M. C.