Meanings of no till in English

There is no work and no tillage, the land being in grass for sheep.

Surely since Adam first began to till the ground in the sweat of his face, his children have found no tillage so Eden-like as this.

No tillage there, no coulter to tear the bosom of the earth.

No laborious occupation required: no tillage: no navigation.

No inclosures, no roads, almost no tillage; it seemed a land which a patriarch would have chosen to feed his flocks and herds.

Most farmers have now turned to zero tillage, or planting in unplowed land, Munguma said in an interview with the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Zero tillage can increase profits through labor and energy savings, conserve soil, increase tolerance to drought, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the World Bank says.

Tractors have been out direct drilling paddocks for summer crops.

The whole of the North Island is now officially in drought, while in the South the ground is too hard for direct drilling.

Pricing power is shifting from service companies to drillers, possibly capping costs, as energy firms slash gas- directed drilling rigs by 23 percent.

It gets 45 percent of its revenue from North America, where a drop in natural gas directed drilling has weakened prices of oilfield services.