TY - RPRT AB - Most U.S. farmers prepare their soil for seeding and weed and pest control through tillage—plowing operations that disturb the soil. Tillage practices affect soil carbon, water pollution, and farmers’ energy and pesticide use, and therefore data on tillage can be valuable for understanding the practice’s role in reaching climate and other environmental goals. In order to help policymakers and other interested parties better understand U.S. tillage practices and, especially, those practices’ potential contribution to climate-change efforts, ERS researchers compiled data from the Agricultural Resource Management Survey and the National Resources Inventory-Conservation Effects Assessment Project’s Cropland Survey. The data show that approximately 35.5 percent of U.S. cropland planted to eight major crops, or 88 million acres, had no tillage operations in 2009. AU - Horowitz, John K. AU - Ebel, Robert M. AU - Ueda, Kohei DA - 2010-11 DA - 2010-11 DO - 10.22004/ag.econ.96636 DO - doi ID - 96636 KW - Environmental Economics and Policy KW - Farm Management KW - Land Economics/Use KW - Resource/Energy Economics and Policy KW - Risk and Uncertainty KW - Tillage KW - no-till KW - Agricultural Resource Management Survey KW - ARMS KW - U.S. crop practices KW - National Resources Inventory-Conservation Effects Assessment Project KW - NRI-CEAP KW - carbon baseline KW - carbon sequestration L1 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/96636/files/EIB70.pdf L2 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/96636/files/EIB70.pdf L4 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/96636/files/EIB70.pdf LA - eng LA - English LK - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/96636/files/EIB70.pdf N2 - Most U.S. farmers prepare their soil for seeding and weed and pest control through tillage—plowing operations that disturb the soil. Tillage practices affect soil carbon, water pollution, and farmers’ energy and pesticide use, and therefore data on tillage can be valuable for understanding the practice’s role in reaching climate and other environmental goals. In order to help policymakers and other interested parties better understand U.S. tillage practices and, especially, those practices’ potential contribution to climate-change efforts, ERS researchers compiled data from the Agricultural Resource Management Survey and the National Resources Inventory-Conservation Effects Assessment Project’s Cropland Survey. The data show that approximately 35.5 percent of U.S. cropland planted to eight major crops, or 88 million acres, had no tillage operations in 2009. PY - 2010-11 PY - 2010-11 T1 - "No-Till" Farming Is a Growing Practice TI - "No-Till" Farming Is a Growing Practice UR - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/96636/files/EIB70.pdf Y1 - 2010-11 T2 - Economic Information Bulletin T2 - Number 70 ER -