(n.) The operation, practice, or art of tilling or preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground in a proper state for the growth of crops.
(n.) A place tilled or cultivated; cultivated land.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two long-term tillage studies on fine-textured, clay loam soils were sampled in July and November 1977 following 2 years of limited rainfall.
(2) These data indicate that tillage can have substantial effects on the accumulation of NO3 in soils and that additional research is needed to determine the mechanisms responsible for these differences.
(3) In contrast, the tillage treatment, alone or in combination with the Agri-Strep or Kocide treatments, had a short-term stimulatory effect and increased populations of applied bacteria and also levels of indigenous fungi and bacteria.
(4) Soil samples were taken in 1 foot increments to a depth of 5 feet to ascertain the accumulation and distribution of nitrate-nitrogen (NO3-N) in the soil profile as influenced by tillage.
(5) The two cultivated sites have been eroded by aeolian processes and tillage practices.
(6) The burn and burn-tillage treatments produced the most significant reductions in bacterial populations.
(7) Evaluations of the effectiveness of diapause egg control or the elimination of early spring broods to provide lasting, season-long suppression were not encouraging if only conventional methods such as insecticides or tillage were used.
(8) Such techniques already exist, from terracing to prevent soil loss through erosion and flooding, minimum or zero tillage, coupled with crop rotation and the application of manure, compost or mulching.
(9) Deeper tillage of the soil generally decreased C-content.
(10) Nitrate-N accumulation in the 0 to 3 foot profile in late July was reduced by 75% (no tillage) to 38% (chisel plow) compared with the conventional moldboard tillage system in this 8-year-old study.
(11) Conservation tillage systems facilitate the infiltration of greater amounts of precipitation into the soil profile by reducing surface runoff.
(12) Dynamic processes in the model include foliar interception, weathering and absorption; plant growth, uptake, harvest and senescence; soil resuspension, percolation, leaching and tillage; radioactive decay; and livestock ingestion, absorption and excretion.
(13) "Fall tillage can also reduce weed numbers, but it is generally not as effective as residual herbicides.
(14) Field plots of bush beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), sprayed with the bacterium Pseudomonas syringae, Pseudomonas fluorescens, or Erwinia herbicola, received the following treatments: (i) control, (ii) tillage, (iii) burning, (iv) burning plus tillage (burn-tillage), (v) Kocide (cupric hydroxide), (vi) Kocide plus tillage, (vii) Agri-Strep (streptomycin sulfate), and (viii) Agri-Strep plus tillage.
(15) Rendering moldy peanuts inaccessible to the cranes by conventional tillage resulted in reduced crane mortality in these areas.
(16) Decontamination treatments of burning and biocide application, alone and in combination with tillage, were evaluated for their ability to reduce populations of bacteria applied to the leaves of plants in field plots.
Tilth
Definition:
(n.) The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture; as, land is good tilth.