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By environmentally friendly, I assume you're speaking of CO2 emissions? Because there are other environmental impacts that makes glyphosate worse than tillage,
by adamcstephens 6y ago
By environmentally friendly, I assume you're speaking of CO2 emissions? Because there are other environmental impacts that makes glyphosate worse than tillage, such as the degradation of soil life.
There are other alternatives to tillage, but they generally require more manual labor and large farms want as little of that as possible.
- orwin 6y agoYou should look into conservation agriculture. It's less oil, less labor, less fertilizer, less pesticides than organic agriculture (and better soils). Only downside, lot of mice.
- bryanlarsen 6y agoThe conservation agriculture I'm familiar with uses less fuel, less labour, less fertilizer, less tillage but more pesticide than either conventional or organic agriculture. Another name for this type of agriculture is zero-till.
- bryanlarsen 6y agoI was mostly thinking about soil loss. Tillage results in a massive loss of topsoil through erosion. Tillage is also devastating for animal life in the soil.