and using contour plowing, strip plowing, and planting "shelter belts" of trees to break the wind. Farmers were defensive when outsiders criticized their farming methods. Only when they were paid ...

and using contour plowing, strip plowing, and planting "shelter belts" of trees to break the wind. Farmers were defensive when outsiders criticized their farming methods. Only when they were paid ...

The agency was tasked with promoting sustainable farming practices to prevent soil erosion, which included educating farmers on contour plowing, crop rotation, and planting cover crops to protect the ...

Biological measures include planting vegetative strips, protective bushland and afforestation. Certain agronomic methods like contour ploughing and mixed cropping could also help. Soil conservation ...

There have been various ways of ploughing tried all over the world, from steam ploughing in Silesia (a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland), to electric ploughing in ...

Khargone: A farmer died when his tractor fell into a well without a boundary wall while ploughing a field in the village of Ojhra, in the Kasrawad police station area of Khargone district.

The 2025 New Zealand Ploughing Championships were held over the weekend in Middlemarch, with Southland farmer Mark Dillon taking out the conventional silver plough title. The Riversdale cropping ...

“It is difficult at times,” he acknowledged, this founder member of the British Ploughing Association, who also proudly belonged to the Horse Ploughing Association and the local Lymington ...

The less intensively you manage the soil, the better the soil can function; for example, not plowing as often or using more grass-clover mixtures as cover crops. These are the conclusions of a ...

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A teenage driver who killed his best friend after ploughing into a wall at 70mph in a Vauxhall Corsa has been sentenced to six years behind bars. Inexperienced and 'reckless' new motorist Finley ...