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In Australia and Asia there are compelling reasons for undertaking no-tillage, and adoption has followed expected patterns with regional differences dictated largely by climate, soil type, and sociological factors. The advantages of no-tillage in these regions have been sufficiently strong to mask other possible weak links in the technical chain. By contrast, in New Zealand there are less compelling reasons to undertake no-tillage because of that country’s favourable agricultural climate and integrated crop and animal systems. New Zealand farmers have therefore been free to respond positively or negatively to the level of fail-safeness that the no-tillage technique has offered over the years. After responding negatively in the 1970’s to the early 1990’s, a recent upswing in response in New Zealand has followed the release of a new design of no-tillage opener (Cross SlotTM) that has attained a field fail-safeness rating of 99%.
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Baker, C.J., Collins, R.M., Choudhary, M.A. (2003). Factors Affecting the Uptake of No-Tillage in Australia, Asia and New Zealand. In: García-Torres, L., Benites, J., Martínez-Vilela, A., Holgado-Cabrera, A. (eds) Conservation Agriculture. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1143-2_2
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