NO-TILL AGRICULTURE Impact of Tillage on Global Agriculture: Technology Profile: For centuries, farmers have used tools, from plows to tractors, to turn over, • By using herbicide-tolerant biotech crops, or till, their soil to remove weeds before planting. While this has been a farmers can use crop protection products, common and effective method for generations, it can ultimately lead to soil instead of tillage, to remove weeds before erosion and loss of essential soil nutrients. Advances in biotech crops and planting. This no-till approach reduces soil crop protection products are allowing farmers worldwide a new approach erosion, preserves water and nutrients, and boosts crop production. through conservation – or no-till – agriculture. By leaving the soil untilled, farmers build up the nutrients in their fields and preserve topsoil, which • No-till farming has the potential to boosts yields and helps our environment. increase irrigated maize crop yields globally by 67% and wheat yields by Tillage Trends: 57% by 2050.6 • Combined with precision agriculture Tillage can remove topsoil, which contains essential nutrients and water that and heat-tolerant varieties, no-till could crops need to thrive. reduce maize and wheat prices by 10 to 20 percent by 2050.7 Traditional tillage practices use • No-till agriculture uses less fuel and more fuel than a no-till system keeps carbon in the soil. In 2012 1 alone, the amount of CO saved by 60% when producing a corn crop. 2 biotech crops was equal to removing every single car from the streets of London for five years.8, 9 With farmers using no-till on 274 million acres each year2, • Globally, farmers are adopting no-till stopping this tillage prevents at least 3.2 million practices at a dramatic rate, especially as herbicide-tolerant biotech crops become tons of CO2 emissions – enough to offset U.S. home electricity use for nearly 3.5 years.3,4,5 more available worldwide – from 45 million no-till hectares in 2001 to more than 100 million hectares in 2008.10 Global Benefits: By 2050, agriculture will need to produce enough food to feed 9 billion people while battling increasingly difficult growing environments due to climate change. No-till agriculture will enable farmers to adapt to these new conditions and deliver yield benefits around the world: Worldwide yield improvements on irrigated acreage with no-till agriculture11 Global Production Maize: 67% increase South Asia Latin America Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean 84-92% increase 95-109% increase 106-115% increase Wheat: 80-82% increase 57% increase 66-69% increase References: 1. https://www.extension.org/pages/28317/reducing-tillage-to-save-fuel#.VBH-9i5dXfh 2. http://www.fao.org/ag/ca/CA-publications/China_IJABE.pdf 3. http://ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/jul97/gcd0797.htm 4. http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-resources/calculator.html#results 5. http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html 6. 2014 International Food Policy Research Institute: Food Security in a World of Natural Resource Scarcity: The Role of Agricultural Technologies. Mark W. Rosegrant, Jawoo Koo, Nicola Cenacchi, Claudia Ringler, Richard Robertson, Myles Fisher, Cindy Cox, Karen Garrett, Nicostrato D. Perez, and Pascale Sabbagh. 7. 2014 International Food Policy Research Institute: Food Security in a World of Natural Resource Scarcity: The Role of Agricultural Technologies 8. Barfoot P, Brookes G. Key global environmental impacts of genetically modified (GM) crop use 1996–2012. GM Crops and Food: Biotechnology in Agriculture and the Food Chain. 9. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/documents/technical-note-12-how-many-cars-are-there-in-london.pdf Derpsch and Friedrich 2009 10. Derpsch and Friedrich 2009 11. 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