tillage
IPA: tˈɪɫɑdʒ
noun
- The cultivation of arable land by plowing, sowing and raising crops.
- Land cultivated in this way.
- The act or process of soil disturbance as a part of farming; especially, types of disturbance requiring draft animals or machinery for power.
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Examples of "tillage" in Sentences
- Optimum water content for tillage.
- An improved tillage blade is disclosed.
- The land generally is valuable for tillage.
- Conservation tillage systems and management.
- It is associated with the promotion of conservation tillage.
- There are two types of tillage primary and secondary tillage.
- No till and strip tillage are both forms of conservation tillage.
- No tillage and surface tillage agriculture the tillage revolution.
- A reduction in tillage passes helps prevent the compaction of soil.
- A basic distinction is between conventional tillage and conservation tillage.