WANTFA's birthday celebrations a hit

By Peter Lee
Updated March 10 2016 - 1:11pm, first published March 31 2012 - 4:00am
The four "revolutionaries" who spread the no-till word in an agricultural world of conventional tillage were Ray Harrington (left), Bill Crabtree, David Harrington and the no-till prophet in the Agricultural Department at the time, Kevin Bligh.
The four "revolutionaries" who spread the no-till word in an agricultural world of conventional tillage were Ray Harrington (left), Bill Crabtree, David Harrington and the no-till prophet in the Agricultural Department at the time, Kevin Bligh.

THE catalyst for the adoption of no-till farming was probably wind erosion and the efforts of a group of people to develop a new system of growing crops without damaging the soil structure.

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