Stop Digging! The Benefits of No-Till and Cover Crops
...ngi, however, are more sensitive than other microorganisms to physical disturbance. Adopting no-till as a conservation management practice eliminates or greatly reduces both disruption of fungal hyphal networks and redistribution of organisms and nutrients in the soil profile. Use of cover crops, meanwhile, provides more abundant and varied sources of organic carbon. Let me just add that we really regret promoting double-digging in one of our book...