Conservation tillage is beneficial financially as well

A publication was published in the D1-ranked journal "International Soil and Water Conservation Research" with the collaboration of our department's staff. The paper “Economic Comparison of Conventional and Conservation Tillage in a Long-Term Experiment: Is It Worth Shifting?” examines the profitability of conservation tillage. Its main finding is that the shift from conventional tillage to conservation tillage has positive ecological and soil health as well as profitability effects. Based on twenty years of data from a sample area in Zala County, the shift may cause some losses for the farmer in the first few years while the new technology is fine-tuned, but there are clear financial benefits afterward. The results provide further arguments in favor of a shift to conservation tillage, which is both ecologically and financially worthwhile even in Hungary.