NO TILLING
Would no-till farming help the ground from blowing? The answer is yes. No-till holds the soil in place by keeping the left over crops on the soil. The roots of the crops hold the topsoil in place unlike disking the soil that loosens the topsoil.
The benefits of no-till farming it that you don’t have to go over the ground 3 or 4 times. That will save you on buying diesel. No-till holds the ground in place and doesn’t let the topsoil blow when the wind blows. With not tilling the worms make trenches where the roots are which allows the water to run to the roots.
No-till saves the farmer money by not having to buy a disk, chisel, field cultivator, and big tractors to pull all the equipment. With no-till all a farmers needs is a smaller tractor, a drill, and a planter. If a farmer works his fields he will need a four-wheel drive tractor, a smaller one to pull the drill and then run both of them. One to field cultivator and the other one to plant the seed, which will use more diesel to work the same piece of ground. With no-tilling all you need is a tractor and a drill and that’s its.
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The farmer should plant a cover crop like radishes or other crops. A radish will go deep in the ground and bring up the nutrients and store them in the leaves and when the freeze come and kills them. Then the leaves will decompose and the crops that are planted after they die will get the nutrients that they need to grow bigger and stronger. Another way to get nutrients back to the soil is to plant legumes. So of the most command one are soybeans, alfalfa, and peanuts. When the farmer plants with a no-till he is putting the federalizer where the seed can get it right as it hits the