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LESOTHO IMPLEMENTS UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE NO-TILL PRACTICES

The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture issued the following news release:

No-till cropping systems have been such a success in Tennessee that sometimes growers take them for granted. But the idea and technologies behind "spare the plow and save the soil" are a big success story to farmers in other reaches of the globe.

In August, a key agricultural researcher from the African nation of Lesotho visited the University of Tennessee's research plots in Jackson and Milan to study how no-till, cover crops, and rotation crops are being used. During a weeklong visit coordinated by Drs. Neal Eash and Forbes Walker of the Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, Dr. ...

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