Across three land tenancy types, Soil Tillage Intensity Rating (STIR) values fall over time for five major crops
- by Daniel Szmurlo and J. Wesley Burnett
- 7/29/2024
Using Agricultural Resource Management Survey data from 2011 to 2021, USDA, Economic Research Service researchers found conservation tillage systems were adopted on cash- and share-rented fields as often as on owner-operated farmland. When it came to planting cover crops, however, the analysis was mixed.