Pursuing Conservation Tillage Systems for Organic Crop Production
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Introduction ............................................................................................................................2 Organic Farming & the Tillage Dilemma .........................................................................3 Mulch Tillage .........................................................................................................................5 Ridge Tillage ..........................................................................................................................5 Killed Mulch Systems ..........................................................................................................6 Mowing ..................................................................................................................6 Undercutting .........................................................................................................7 Rolling & Roll-Chopping ..................................................................................8 Weather-Kill .........................................................................................................8 Cover Crops for Killed Mulch Systems ..........................................................9 The Challenges of Killed Mulches ...................................................................9 Resources & Research on Killed Mulches ......................................................10 Living Mulches ......................................................................................................................11 Cover Crop Selection for Living Mulches ......................................................12 Living Mulch Suppression ................................................................................13 Resources & Research on Living Mulches ......................................................13 Zone Tillage ............................................................................................................................13 Cover Crop Technologies .....................................................................................................14 Selected Abstracts ..................................................................................................................15 Summary .................................................................................................................................22 References ...............................................................................................................................24 Further ATTRA Resources ...................................................................................................28 Acknowledgements ...............................................................................................................28
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