untilled

More and more, farmers are interested in not tilling their soil at all, for instance; untilled soil means reduced erosion and the preservation of its organic material.

Reduced tillage, already practiced by thousands of farmers, was once considered a major climate win because researchers saw carbon accumulate near the surface of untilled soils.

Mr. Maguire’s lobbying for the brumbies is part of a backlash to a growing movement in Australia to correct historical narratives that cast white settlers as conquering an “empty” and untilled continent.

The political landscape was never prepared, soil untilled, last-minute policies falling on stony ground.

Bare and untilled fields yield bones—skulls, femurs, pelvises, ribs—that lay exposed to the elements.