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CPRI: Research Notes CPRI's Research Notes promotes commentary and analysis of reports, books, and articles that relate to crop production pest management. Research Notes are written by CPRI staff and outside contributers. Sustainable AgricultureCPRI staff are writing a Report on the Relationship between Pesticide Use and Sustainable Crop Production in the US. The entire Report will be available in January, 2011 on this site. Individual sections of the Report will be posted as they are developed. No-TillOne of the most prominent benefits of pesticide use in the US has been the adoption of no-till farming methods. By using herbicides to remove weeds from fields, farmers have been able to eliminate tillage which results in less fuel used on the farm, less time demands on the farmer and less erosion of farm fields which results in improved water quality in the nation’s rivers and streams. Figure 1 shows the increase in no-till acreage in the US over the past two decades:
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