Dear like-minded people, I have great news! After several years of dedicated work, my book “No-Till Farming for Beginners” is finally available to a wider audience via Amazon! For those who don’t know, this is an updated English version of my previous book “No-Till for Beginners”, which has already been translated into 5 languages. In the book, I collected all …
Soil degradation has reached global proportions and threatens the world’s food security. According to the UN, up to 40% of the world’s land is degraded. The main reason is excessive mechanical tillage, which destroys soil structure, accelerates erosion and loss of fertility. Currently, one of the most effective solutions for stabilizing and regenerating degraded land is No-till technology, which involves …
The conference “No-Till Technology – From Economic Recovery to Soil Recovery” at AGRO UKRAINE SUMMIT was divided into 2 panel discussions During these discussions, we went through a very interesting and fruitful path, learned a lot and discussed key aspects of No-Till technology, such as the economy and soil health. I would like to thank all the participants …
Looking to the future, I see no-till and organic (biological) farming technologies as the most promising. But some scientists who support organic farming often try to oppose biological no-till technology. For some reason, they choose neither traditional nor intensive farming, but zero-till farming as the object of criticism (or comparison). Although I don’t quite understand why they are “attacking” no-till. …
The tailwind blows only into the sails of that ship, that knows exactly where it is going. (Eastern wisdom) Sometimes you can see the following picture: people switch to No-till technology, work for several years, but when they encounter some difficulties and fail to solve them, they get frustrated and return to more traditional methods of tillage. As a rule, …
Often, when discussing the work of seeders, you can hear the following opinions: – this is not a real No-till; – This is not No-till, but a minimum technology; – This is 100% No-till, etc. And such conclusions are drawn almost only by the name of the seeder coulter. When seed drill sellers talk about this, I understand why they …
In its most simplified form, the entire traditional process of crop production looks like a cycle that repeats itself every year: soil preparation – sowing – harvesting. To harvest something, you first have to sow it. And to sow, you need to create favorable conditions for sowing. In traditional and other farming systems, this goal is achieved through mechanical tillage. …
I would like to share my idea. Back when I was just mastering no-till technology, every day on the field I had to face various important questions that I did not have an answer to. While traditional farming, which is based on tillage, has a wealth of experience and all issues are more or less researched, there are still a …