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Igor Bogunovic, Ivan Dugan, Paulo Pereira, Vilim Filipovic, Lana Filipovic, Vedran Krevh, Jasmina Defterdarovic, Manuel Matisic and Ivica Kisic
The negative environmental impact of conventional agriculture threatens agroecosystem stability and food security. Therefore, searching for optimal soil management practices is crucial for maintaining and improving soil functions. This work aims to deter...
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Somasundaram Jayaraman, Meenakshi Sahu, Nishant K. Sinha, Monoranjan Mohanty, Ranjeet S. Chaudhary, Brijesh Yadav, Lalit K. Srivastava, Kuntal M. Hati, Ashok K. Patra and Ram C. Dalal
Conservation agriculture (CA), comprising of minimum soil disturbance and crop residue retention (>30%), with a diversified cropping system, has become increasingly popular around the world. It is recognized as a sustainable practice to improve soil heal...
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Patrick M. Carr
There is interest in reducing or even eliminating tillage in organic production systems. In this special Issue, research teams in Europe and North America summarize recent and on-going efforts to develop conservation-tillage systems that can be used on c...
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Erik Lehnhoff, Zachariah Miller, Perry Miller, Stephen Johnson, Tessa Scott, Patrick Hatfield and Fabian D. Menalled
Organic agricultural production has become a major economic and cultural force. However, in water-limited environments the tools used for weed control and nutrient supply, namely tillage and cover crops, may not be environmentally or economically sustain...
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Erin M. Silva and Kathleen Delate
The organic industry continues to expand in the United States (U.S.), with 14,093 organic farms in 2014. The upper Midwestern U.S. has emerged as a hub for organic row crop production; however, the management of these organic row crop hectares heavily re...
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Jonas F. Weber, Christoph Kunz, Gerassimos G. Peteinatos, Sabine Zikeli and Roland Gerhards
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Sabine Zikeli and Sabine Gruber
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Sylwia Wesolowska, Dariusz Danilkiewicz, Dorota Gaweda, Malgorzata Haliniarz, Hubert Rusecki and Justyna Lukasz
The aim of this three-year field experiment was to determine how simplified (reduced) pre-planting tillage and different weed control methods impact the yield and selected quality parameters of spelt grain (Triticum aestivum ssp. spelta L.). Conventional...
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Carolina Bilibio, Daniel Uteau, Malte Horvat, Ulla Rosskopf, Stephan Martin Junge, Maria Renate Finckh and Stephan Peth
In conservation agriculture, conservation tillage potentially influences the physical, chemical, and biological quality of the soil. Although the effects of conservation agriculture on the soil?s physical properties have been studied in conventional mana...
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Frédéric Baudron, Christian Thierfelder, Isaiah Nyagumbo and Bruno Gérard
Since the paper by Giller et al. (2009), the debate surrounding the suitability of conservation agriculture (CA) for African smallholders has remained polarized between proponents and opponents. The debate also gave rise to a few studies that atte...
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Karol Kotwica, Lech Galezewski, Edward Wilczewski and Waldemar Kubiak
In the aspect of the sustainable development of agrocenoses, the proper management of plant residues remaining after harvesting, the appropriate selection of tillage and maintaining high microbiological activity of soil are particularly important. Theref...
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Erika Tobia?ová, Joanna Lemanowicz, Bozena Debska, Martina Kunkelová and Juraj Sakác
Tillage is a significant type of soil intervention and should be conducted based on the specific soil type. The aim of this study was to determine the influence of different tillage intensities (RT: reduced tillage; CT: conventional tillage), which are c...
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Sabine Zikeli, Sabine Gruber, Claus-Felix Teufel, Karin Hartung and Wilhelm Claupein
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Gunasekhar Nachimuthu, Neil V. Halpin and Michael J. Bell
Intensive agricultural practices in farming systems in eastern Australia have been identified as a contributor to the poor runoff water quality entering the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). A field investigation was carried out to measure the off-farm water qua...
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Nana Chen, Xin Zhao, Shuxian Dou, Aixing Deng, Chengyan Zheng, Tiehua Cao, Zhenwei Song and Weijian Zhang
Conservation tillage has received strong support globally to achieve food security and minimize environmental impacts. However, there are comprehensive debates on whether it can achieve the synergy between maintaining crop yields and improving soil quali...
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Vengai Mbanyele, Florence Mtambanengwe, Hatirarami Nezomba, Jairos Rurinda and Paul Mapfumo
Increasing within-season dry spells in Southern Africa in recent years have generated growing interest in conservation agriculture (CA) to secure crop yields, especially under rainfed systems. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of CA on finger mill...
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Andrea Balla Kovács, Evelin Kármen Juhász, Áron Béni, Ida Kincses, Magdolna Tállai, Zsolt Sándor, János Kátai, Tamás Rátonyi and Rita Kremper
The effects of intensive and reduced tillage, fertilization, and irrigation on soil chemical and microbiological parameters were studied in a long-term field experiment in Hungary. The treatments were plowing tillage, ripper tillage, strip tillage; contr...
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Tong Yang, Zhi Yang, Chunchun Xu, Fengbo Li, Fuping Fang and Jinfei Feng
To better understand the effects of tillage practice and fertilization management on greenhouse gas emissions and yields, a four-year field experiment was conducted to assess the effects of tillage practices (rotary tillage (RT) and no tillage (NT)) on t...
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Amira Aschi, Wassila Riah-Anglet, Sylvie Recous, Caroline Bailleul, Michaël Aubert and Isabelle Trinsoutrot-Gattin
This study evaluated the response of soil microbial functions to the presence and placement of faba beans in crop rotations (rotation without legumes versus rotations with faba beans as the crop previous to wheat, with the faba beans sown three years bef...
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Josue De Los Rios, Arne Poyda, Friedhelm Taube, Christof Kluß, Ralf Loges and Thorsten Reinsch
Many studies recommend no-till (NT) to increase soil organic carbon (SOC) in the topsoil (<30 cm) of arable land to counterbalance greenhouse gas emissions. Its potential use to mitigate SOC losses during conversion and renovation of grassland ecosystems...
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