More recently, after we learned how to build a deeper "turning" plow, plowing was used to mix the upper and lower soil layers. In colder areas with heavy or mineral rich soils, this could improve ...

Tibetan farmers conduct ancient spring plowing rituals on Saturday to mark the start of this year's plowing season in Mar village in Doilungdechen district of Lhasa, Xizang autonomous region ...

Jesse Stubs plowing, prepares soil to plant corn on newly-terraced land in Flint River Farms, Georgia, in May 1939. (Marion Post Wolcott/Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division) Since ...

Spring is just about here, and when it comes, so begins the work of tilling the fields. Mike Stevens takes us Back Down the Pennsylvania Road to Susquehanna County in 1985 and the story of a ...

GOWANDA — The plows have been lowered at the 28th annual plowing festival in the Town of Collins, where two or three horses pulling a farmer may not be the ...

St. Johns County Coastal Management is now tilling to help protect and maintain sea turtle nesting habitats. Research shows that tilling, a process that loosens sand, allows sea turtles to dig ...

Spray-resistant superweeds hit the U.S. farm belt hard, with big issues for food and chemicals. A tractor plows weeds from between rows of cotton near Lubbock, Texas, Tuesday, June 8, 2004.