no-tillagen.adj.

1887 19th Ann. Rep. State Board Agric. Missouri 116 As between tillage and no tillage we get the following balance.

1892 E. M. Shelton Establishm. Creameries, Insecticides, Manures (Queensland Dept. Agric. Bull. No. 16) 27 Shallow and deep tillage were also compared with no tillage... Shallow tillage, and even no tillage, were more effective than deep tillage.

1906 3rd Ann. Rep. Vermont State Hort. Soc. 67 This question of tillage vs. no tillage is very well summed up in the following four-year average of well cared-for orchards set previous to 1880.

1961 J. E. Moody et al. in Proc. Soil Sci. Soc. Amer. 25 517/1 (heading) Comparison of effects of conventional tillage and no tillage on composition, growth and yield of corn.

1984 Jrnl. Appl. Ecol. 21 991 Under no-tillage, crops are planted into previously unploughed soil by opening a narrow band of only sufficient width and depth to obtain proper seed coverage.

1998 Jrnl. Production Agric. 11 247 (title) No-tillage increases profit in a limited irrigation–dryland system.

1911 J. Thompson Biennial Rep. Dept. Agric. Tennessee 84 The burden of proof rests upon the no-tillage advocate rather than on the pro-tillage advocate.

1960 Great Bend (Kansas) Daily Tribune 23 Aug. 10/1 No-tillage plots yielded only 17.7 bushels.

1961 J. E. Moody et al. in Proc. Soil Sci. Soc. Amer. 25 517/1 The growth rate of corn grown without tillage (average of the two no-tillage treatments) was significantly higher.

1976 Science 194 151 ‘No-tillage’ and ‘minimum-tillage’ crop production technology are [sic] extremely effective in controlling soil erosion.

2000 N.Y. Times Mag. 9 Apr. 68/3 It's selling you good bread at nearly five bucks a loaf, but at least you know the wheat comes from a ‘no tillage’ family farm in Montana.