Growing Tomatoes with Less Tillage

摘要

Since 1999, we have evaluated conservation tillage (CT) and cover cropping (CC) practices for tomato production in an eight-acre field in Five Points, Calif. The objective of this work has been to compare standard till (ST) with and without (NO) winter cover crops and conservation tillage with and without cover crops in terms of economics, productivity, soil properties and dust emissions through a tomato - cotton rotation. The study field is divided in half to allow both crops to be grown in each year. A summary of the first five years of this work is presented here.