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  2. Tillage - Wikipedia

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    Soon after 1900, the farm tractor was introduced, which made modern large-scale agriculture possible. However, the destruction of the prairie grasses and tillage of the fertile topsoil of the American Midwest caused the Dust Bowl , in which the soil was blown away and stirred up into dust storms that blackened the sky.

  3. Cultivator - Wikipedia

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    Mini tillers are a new type of small agricultural tillers or cultivators, used by farmers or homeowners. These are also known as power tillers or garden tillers. Compact, powerful and, most importantly, inexpensive, these agricultural rotary tillers are providing alternatives to four-wheel tractors and in the small farmers' fields in developing ...

  4. Tiller (botany) - Wikipedia

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    A tiller is a shoot that arises from the base of a grass plant. The term refers to all shoots that grow after the initial parent shoot grows from a seed. [1] [2] Tillers are segmented, each segment possessing its own two-part leaf. They are involved in vegetative propagation and, in some cases, also seed production.

  5. Zynga designer on farming in World of Warcraft: 'I'm glad to ...

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    When the farming feature in the latest World of Warcraft (WoW) expansion, Mists of Pandaria, was revealed, most media (us included) asked, "What will the players think?" But soon after, another ...

  6. List of agricultural machinery - Wikipedia

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    Agricultural equipment is any kind of machinery used on a farm to help with farming. The best-known example of this kind is the tractor. From left to right: John Deere 7800 tractor with Houle slurry trailer, Case IH combine harvester, New Holland FX 25 forage harvester with corn head.

  7. No-till farming - Wikipedia

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    The practice of no-till farming is a combination of different ideas developed over time, many techniques and principles used in no-till farming are a continuation of traditional market gardening found in various regions like France. [10] A formalized opposition to plowing started in the 1940s with Edward H. Faulkner, author of Plowman's Folly. [11]

  8. List of former tractor manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    Homier Farm-Pro (USA) Honda (Japan) Richard Hornsby & Sons (England, UK) Horwood Bagshaw (Australia) Howard (Australia) – tractor, rotavators and rotary tillers; Howard Farmers (England, UK) HOYO (Romania) – assemble Tai Shan ; HSCS (Hungary) Huber (USA) Hume (USA) Hydratiller (USA) Hyundai (South Korea)

  9. Strip-till - Wikipedia

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    Strip tillage has some similarities with no-till systems because the surface is protected with residue. However, strip-till also has a similar effect on soil properties as conventional tillage systems because the farmer still breaks the soil's crust which allows aerobic conditions to speed the decay of organic matter.