While it helps the environment by preventing erosion, no-till farming keeps fertilizer in the upper soil.
And no-till farming equates to fewer emissions, less soil erosion and less chemical runoff.
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And herbicide tolerance has made possible a shift to more benign herbicides and to environment-friendly no-till farming.
This is important because the energy bill would allow farmers to earn "offsets" if they practice no-till.
Breeders and scientists will continue to develop more water-efficient plants and agricultural technologies, such as no-till production.
But scientists aren't sure no-till really sequesters carbon any better than conventional farming.
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Over half (52%) believe that they should either get jail time, or at the minimum, get no salary till the oil is cleaned up.
Researchers have discovered that when you dig down three feet or so, plowed fields hold just as much if not more carbon than no-till.
By some calculations although there's some scientific argument over this each acre of no-till land in Iowa captures about a ton of carbon dioxide from the air each year.
Soil scientist Michel Cavigelli of the U.S. Department of Agriculture agrees that no-till fields, like the one he studies in rural Maryland, can hold more carbon than plowed fields.
No-till, practised more in America than in Britain, means growing crops without ploughing fields, and leads to many-fold increases in bird population and a range of other environmental benefits.
Bigger environmental gains have been observed in no-till agriculture.
Most of these new varieties are designed to be resistant to pests and diseases, or to be resistant to herbicides, so that farmers can more effectively control weeds while adopting more environment-friendly no-till farming practices and more benign herbicides.
Many farmers using these seeds have even been able to implement a "no-till" system, which offers tremendous environmental benefits by preventing soil erosion, keeping farm water and chemical run-off out of local watersheds and releasing less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
The first trouble was about money: Stan never had any, but that was no great shame till his brother started coming home with pockets full of checks and cash from his odd jobs.
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Having no euro notes in the till, Mr Weijs feared that at this pace the shop might run out coins fast.
Farmers are loth to invest in improving productivity when they have no title to the land they till.
Somehow, amid all the noise and houseguests, no one had picked up on it till then.
And if he has made a determination that executing the law by enforcing the terms is unconstitutional, I don't see why he doesn't have the courage of his convictions and execute not only the statute, but do it consistent with his view of the Constitution, rather than saying, oh, we'll wait till the Supreme Court tells us we have no choice.
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This week's flexible pact deals only with the treaty's first time period (till the end of this decade or so) and calls for no cuts in emissions by poor countries.
No means succeeded though there was an agonizing close call or two till the U.S. Special Forces stormed that house in Abbottabad, Pakistan, the evening of May 1, 2011.
To put it another way, the Bank is saying that in a business-as-usual way, with no stigma attached and at a cheaper interest rate, it will provide the funds that till now it would only provide through its so-called discount window - which is where banks go to borrow in an embarrassing emergency.
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