No Till Notes: 'Conservation agriculture, part 2'

Last week I introduced you to Rattan Lal, director of the Carbon Management and Sequestration Center at Ohio State University.

Lal published an article on his concepts for developing a conservation agricultural system for our farms and ranches. His concepts involve adapting five steps towards a complex conservation agricultural system which concentrates on improving the soil’s health as we move into the future of production agriculture across our nation. Last week we looked at the first three steps in adopting this system.

The first of these steps is to adopt no-till crop production practices...