This section provides information on the project's work on the costs of conservation tillage and the impacts of its practice on crop yield and weed populations.

Information on soil management operations, inputs and yields will be recorded by participating farmers throughout the project. The cost of a particular operation e.g. spraying, ploughing, will be standardised within a particular country by using nationally published contractor costs, allowing an objective comparison between farms. Therefore the costs resulting from this analysis may differ from the farmers' real costs or benefits.

Weed seed populations will be surveyed in the UK and Hungary and detailed weed counts will be undertaken in the UK in the final year of the project

Please follow the links below to find out more about the uptake of conservation tillage and the issues faced by farmers (Summary) and the Objectives of this part of the project