How to Use tillage in a Sentence

tillage

noun
  • Plus, monocropping often goes hand in hand with tillage.
    — Matt Alderton, USA Today, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Her farm’s tillage practices are one way to keep carbon in the soil.
    — Danielle Echeverria, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Feb. 2021
  • The railway boom brought millions of acres of arable land under tillage.
    — David McWilliams, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Fall tillage — when farmers go through their fields and turn over all the dirt — may be delayed in some places by the snow.
    — Adam Belz, Star Tribune, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Acres with reduced tillage – which cuts runoff – rose 27% during that time, and no-till was up 9%.
    — Erin Jordan, Journal Sentinel, 2 July 2024
  • By minimizing tillage, carbon is sequestered and stored in the soil.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Apr. 2023
  • And fall tillage was 59% complete, more than 4 weeks ahead of last year and nine days ahead of average.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2020
  • So, more plant matter less tillage = less CO2 in the atmosphere.
    — Sally McCabe, Philly.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • So, more plant matter + less tillage = less CO2 in the atmosphere.
    — Sally McCabe, Philly.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • One morning the farmer next door drove his tractor and tillage tool literally 10 yards from his tree stand.
    — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 3 Dec. 2019
  • And fall tillage was 61% complete, three days ahead of last year and 12 days ahead of the five-year average.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Reducing tillage and burning of waste and cutting emissions from equipment could also lead to small health gains.
    — Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2021
  • These fuels are made from edible crops such as corn and soy, which compete with our food supply and increase the demand on our land, leading to clearing and tillage.
    — Matthew Hayek, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Aside from that, the tractor uses the same second-generation technology stack as its tractors for field tillage.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Fifty-seven percent of acres are under no-till or conservation tillage, reducing erosion and fuel use.
    — Sj Studio, Sourcing Journal, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Soybean harvest and fall tillage were also late, both 18 days behind last year and 25 days behind the average.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Prior to the 1900s, weeds were tackled with plowing, or tillage, explains Liebhold.
    — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian, 1 Oct. 2019
  • The programs aim to keep vegetation growing nearly year round to withdraw more carbon from the atmosphere, and avoid tillage to keep carbon in the soil.
    — Jacob Bunge, WSJ, 24 June 2021
  • The winter spreading of waste feed and tillage — both legal — duped the model, according to a spreadsheet of outcomes obtained through a public records request.
    — Bennet Goldstein, Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
  • To burn less fuel, he's considered skipping a tillage pass, a maneuver whereby a tractor manipulates soil to enhance crop growth.
    — Arkansas Online, 20 July 2022
  • No tilling Today, ditching tillage seems unfathomable, but ecosystems have long managed to produce robust growth without it.
    — Brian Barth, Popular Science, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Many farmers have focused on short-term productivity, relying on fertilizers or frequent tillage to boost yields from one season to the next.
    — Huma Tariq Malik, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2025
  • John Deere’s first-generation tractors were designed specifically for the slowest and easiest works, which is fall tillage with a chisel file.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 6 Jan. 2025
  • It’s based on factors such as location, soil types, tillage practices, nutrient applications and crop cultivation.
    — NBC News, 21 May 2021
  • Better practices such as cover crops, reduced or no tillage to protect the soil and on-farm installations to reduce runoff have substantially increased in recent years.
    — ABC News, 4 June 2026
  • It’s based on factors such as location, soil types, tillage practices, nutrient applications, and crop cultivation.
    — John Flesher, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 May 2021
  • The money also will help more farmers in the basin adopt those practices, like planting crops that cover the ground year-round to catch rain, and reducing tillage, which stirs up the soil and accelerates erosion.
    — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 23 Oct. 2024
  • With the success of the summer harvest, Hands Free Hectare plans to continue its research into farming without any human tillage.
    — Spencer Feingold, CNN, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Currently, no-till farming, or not disturbing soil through tillage, is gaining popularity, but that means herbicide use is sky rocketing.
    — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian, 1 Oct. 2019
  • The farmers do as little soil digging as possible because traditional tillage destroys the fungal networks and the desirable soil structure.
    — Adrian Higgins, idahostatesman, 23 Aug. 2017

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