Contact: Debra Levey Larson
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University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
Caption: No-till is often better than conventional tillage at building or retaining more of the organic matter in the soil, which is important to crop productivity, but no-till is not necessarily sequestering atmospheric carbon.
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