Hurrah to IOTA and Organic Research Centre! And thanks to both for their interest in non-inversion tillage.
The session at the ORC conference recently was both interesting and challenging and brought together some organic non-inversion tillage researchers and practitioners to give us some insight into their work. We were also introduced to TILLMAN-ORG a new EU project on the subject.
There is focus on non-inversion tillage systems at present and it is great to see that new projects like TILLMAN-ORG and others in the USA are starting and will I'm sure help inform farmers about the technique.
It feels as if this is a confluence of the farming community with the research world and producers coming together to explore and learn more about the topic with neither side either leading or pushing the other. Organically it is a topic about which there is little knowledge or experience and so we set out (to a greater extent) on a journey of discovery together. IOTA and now TILLMAN-ORG are seeking to draw on and learn from farmer experience both to share with other farmers and to help influence and develop research.
And you can help. TILLMAN-ORG are asking for your experience and would like to hear from you if you have undertaken any non-inversion tillage establishment on your farm. Yes, we've heard of Richard Gantlett's fantastic work at Yatesbury and David Wilson's new Ecodyn project at Duchy Home Farm. But there are many others out there doing bits that need to be learned from too.
You probably have some nuggets of golden information that can help everyone learn and hopefully as you've not ploughed them down they're on the surface waiting to be discovered.
Find out more about the TILLMAN-ORG project and please complete the TILLMAN-ORG questionnaire CLICK HERE and let them and hopefully the world know of your ground breaking work. [That's enough puns -Ed.]
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