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Tillage and Soil Compaction

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Conservation Agriculture

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Soil structure degradation (SSD), often called soil compaction, is ubiquitous to cropping and grazing lands, worldwide. With soil erosion, compaction is regarded as the most serious environmental problem caused by conventional agriculture. Examples span all soils, small to large farms, developed and developing nations, subsistence to corporate farming enterprises.

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    D. McGarry

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  1. Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, CSIC, Cordoba, Spain

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    Luis García-Torres (Professor), Armando Martínez-Vilela (ECAF Executive Director) & Antonio Holgado-Cabrera (Professor),  (ECAF Executive Director) & 

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McGarry, D. (2003). Tillage and Soil Compaction. In: García-Torres, L., Benites, J., Martínez-Vilela, A., Holgado-Cabrera, A. (eds) Conservation Agriculture. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1143-2_37

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