Conservation tillage handbook: Equipment modifications and practical tips for use

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Brubacher, Paul
Sadler Richards, Jane
McKague, Kevin

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Agriculture Canada

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This handbook provides a pictorial overview of some examples of conservation equipment `hardware' contributing to conservation farming activities in southwestern Ontario. By clearly identifying specific modifications and highlighting practical tips for use, this handbook orients the reader to the terminology and some of the system options available to those beginning or expanding conservation tillage practices.

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Archive of Agri-Environmental Programs in Ontario, Soil and Water Environmental Enhancement Program, SWEEP, conservation farming practices, conservation tillage, equipment, molboard plow, chisel plow, seed drills, row crop planter, ridge-till system

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