If all those workers had remained tilling the land, America would now be a lot poorer.
Farmers are returning to tilling and using older, more toxic herbicides to control weeds.
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The adoption of herbicide-resistant crops could help improve water and soil quality by reducing the need for tilling.
Almost immediately, those settlers appropriated the imagery and self-regard of their left-wing secular predecessors, the kibbutzniks idealists tilling the land.
German farmers seem uninterested in tilling poor Polish soil anyway, especially without subsidies.
Roundup is not as toxic to animals or people as other herbicides, and the crops have allowed farmers to do less tilling.
Former farm laborers, though, earned substantially more working on Henry Ford's moving assembly lines in Detroit than they did tilling fields.
The concept: When crops are planted without tilling, the soil holds more carbon, which means less goes up into the atmosphere.
Tilling, or plowing, a field prepares the soil for planting and destroys weeds, but a Roundup-ready crop doesn't require extensive tillage.
Techniques that keep greenhouse gases trapped in the soil, such as injecting seeds rather than tilling, have already led to lucrative contracts.
Agricultural landscapes can accomplish this while improving food and fiber production and minimizing the need for artificial fertilizer and fossil-fuel-driven tilling and raising farmer incomes.
But the migrant laborers I talk to seem to accept this inequity unquestioningly, pointing out that they still earn more than they would tilling their fields.
The Jews returned, but the Samaritans did not leave, continuing to live in what had previously been Jewish homes, tilling what had previously been Jewish fields.
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Today, this sustainable ethos is still very much alive, with locals still tilling their own vegetable patches and a commitment to minimal water usage and traditional growing methods wherever possible.
"The council will continue to work closely with Surrey Police to apply to the county court to obtain possession of the property, " said tenancy management officer Jenny Tilling.
Or even tilling the soil, like our more proximate ancestors.
Neighbors and friends said Poland did various acts of kindness for people in town, from fixing someone's tractor to tilling the garden of a neighbor who had a heart attack.
Relied on by generations of Indians for tilling fields, dairy products and dung fuel, the cow is regarded by Hindus as gau mata, or maternal figure, and has had a long-standing central role in India's religious rituals.
As a congressman, senator and vice president, he worked relentlessly toward creating disincentives to the development, testing and use of innovative, safe and potentially important technologies--especially biotechnology applied to agriculture, which has been instrumental in enhancing yields, reducing losses from pests and encouraging farming practices that prevent carbon dioxide release from tilling soil.
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