strip tilling

English translation: tilling of alternate strips

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English term or phrase:strip tilling
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14:44 May 20, 2013
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English term or phrase: strip tilling
Hello everyone. Can anyone please tell me what "strip tilling" is? I mean, all tilling is done in strips (I know of no tilling method that doesn't do so in strips), so why would strip tilling be called "strip" tilling? Thanks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip-till
Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 21:47
tilling of alternate strips
Explanation:
This is fully explained in the Wikipedia article you cite.

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Narrow strips are tilled only where the crop is to be sown and the rest of the field is left untilled. This is radically different from conventional tilling, where the whole field is tilled.
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B D Finch
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4 +2tilling of alternate strips
B D Finch
5narrow strip conservative tillage
Hassan Lotfy
1strip tilling
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strip tilling


Explanation:
Presumably as opposed to going round in circles.

Bashiqa
France
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Works in field
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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
tilling of alternate strips


Explanation:
This is fully explained in the Wikipedia article you cite.

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Note added at 17 mins (2013-05-20 15:01:31 GMT)
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Narrow strips are tilled only where the crop is to be sown and the rest of the field is left untilled. This is radically different from conventional tilling, where the whole field is tilled.

B D Finch
France
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agree  Anna Herbst
9 hrs
  -> Thanks Anna

agree  Sheila Wilson: 8-10 inches is tilled, out of a strip of land that may be up to a yard wide (I'm guessing here)
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
narrow strip conservative tillage


Explanation:
Strip tillage is a relatively new form of conservation tillage. Strip till preserves all of the crop residue left from the previous year's harvest. Only a narrow strip of this residue is removed in which the seed is planted. Mounds are created in this narrow strip during fertilizer application in the fall, creating a warmer, drier seedbed.

Hassan Lotfy
Egypt
Local time: 22:47
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