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Recent Examples of tillage
In Kentucky, farmers are planting colorful cover crops, abstaining from disturbing the soil through tillage and embracing other conservation practices to help stave off erosion and protect water quality — both in local waterways and a thousand miles downstream.
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Janet Wilson, USA TODAY, 27 June 2024
And insect-resistant and herbicide-tolerant GMO plants have reduced tractor use for insecticide spraying and tillage, dramatically cutting yearly greenhouse gas emissions.
—Emma Kovak, Foreign Affairs, 17 Nov. 2021
Planting cover crops, reducing tillage and minimizing fertilizer application are also solutions to other environmental challenges like water pollution from fertilizer run-off that contributes to the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.
—Karina Atkins, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2024
The winter spreading of waste feed and tillage — both legal — duped the model, according to a spreadsheet of outcomes obtained through a public records request.
—Bennet Goldstein, Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
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Janet Wilson, USA TODAY, 27 June 2024
And insect-resistant and herbicide-tolerant GMO plants have reduced tractor use for insecticide spraying and tillage, dramatically cutting yearly greenhouse gas emissions.
—Emma Kovak, Foreign Affairs, 17 Nov. 2021
Planting cover crops, reducing tillage and minimizing fertilizer application are also solutions to other environmental challenges like water pollution from fertilizer run-off that contributes to the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.
—Karina Atkins, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2024
The winter spreading of waste feed and tillage — both legal — duped the model, according to a spreadsheet of outcomes obtained through a public records request.
—Bennet Goldstein, Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tillage
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Grateful Dead At 60 years and still truckin’, the Grateful Dead—whose original members Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann and Bobby Weir were in attendance—is mythological in its organic cultivation of community and the live show experience.Cathy Applefeld Olson, Billboard, 9 Dec. 2024
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The lack of consistency in the cultivation, processing and availability of cannabis products across state lines is significant.Peter Su, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2024
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In the United States, a trend of consolidation in agriculture, particularly dairies, has seen more animals housed together on ever-larger farms as the number of small farms has rapidly shrunk.Simon Hill, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2024
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Rokon currently offers seven different models that are suited to a range of outdoor activities, including agriculture, hunting, and search and rescue.New Atlas, New Atlas, 14 Dec. 2024
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In other South African provinces like Limpopo and North West, provincial governments are looking at farming as a source of training and employment for disabled people.MOGOMOTSI MAGOME, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2024
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Williams believes that sustainable farming not only benefits future generations but also improves the wine by allowing the vineyard to thrive naturally.Rachel King, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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Jonna Roberta Gane Lazarus, a landscape designer and artist whose interest in horticulture included native plants, died of ALS complications Nov. 24 at her Tuscany Canterbury home.Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 5 Dec. 2024
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Trademarks are used in horticulture through plant variety branding, garden products, and wholesale and retail nursery businesses.Tammy Sons, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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And definitely pull on some gardening gloves first to avoid sap and scrapes.Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Dec. 2024
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There aren’t a lot of curriculums that work with something as simple as, say, gardening.Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 11 Dec. 2024
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The development of indoor hydroponics — plant cultivation in a nutrient-laden solution — and other agronomy advances have enabled growers to increase the concentration of the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis plants, tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC.Dr. Jerrold B. Leikin, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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The brand owns and runs 28 golf courses across their resort portfolio and handles operations, maintenance and agronomy in house.Mike Dojc, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
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“Tillage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tillage. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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