Conservation tillage is not conservation agriculture

Conservation tillage includes a broad set of practices with a goal leaving some crop residue on the soil's surface to increase water infiltration and reduce erosion. The various practices described as "conservation tillage" have led to terminology confusion. Conservation tillage is often confused with no-till or variants of CT described in vague terms, such as such as minimum tillage, mulch tillage, ridge tillage, strip tillage, and reduced tillage, where planting is achieved on specially prepared surfaces with various amounts of crop residue cover These definitions of CT and the use of jargon send a mixed and confusing mes-