Articles Tagged with ''conservation agriculture''

No-Till in the USA

[Video] No-Till in the USA

Part 2 of Conservation Agriculture and Global Warming in Ghana
The second installment of this 4-video report examining the debate on "conservation agriculture" and global warming takes a look at how no-till go started in the U.S. Lloyd Murdock, Professor at the University of Kentucky, Texas A&M University Professor Edwin Price, no-tiller John Young of Herndon, Ky., and philanthropist Howard G. Buffett, chairman of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, discuss how soil erosion was the impetus for farmers and researchers who saw the importance of conserving the soil in the 20th century.
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Saved by the Soil

[Video] Saved by the Soil

Part 1 of Conservation Agriculture and Global Warming in Ghana
Filmed on location in Ghana and the USA, this 4-video report examines the debate on "conservation agriculture" and global warming. Can techniques such as "no-till farming" work in a developing country such as Ghana? Can they help sequester carbon from the atmosphere and help solve global warming?
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Soil Health: The Next Big Step in Agriculture

Farmers must adopt conservation agricultural practices to begin building the environment for healthier soil microbes.
As you look back through agriculture there have been some real turning points. Agriculture saw the first real leap into production agriculture in our country with the Industrial Age, when mechanized agriculture really changed the face of our country. Larger and larger farms were created as it became possible to produce crops on many more acres.
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