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...Soviet Union's famed Geneticist Trofim D. Lysenko, currently out of favor with his bosses, has tried hard-perhaps too hard-for a comeback. At a conference on farm problems, he backed a "new Russian agricultural discovery": plowless farming. Despite Booster Lysenko's proprietary enthusiasm, the technique (loosening soil with a disk harrow instead of plow-turning it over) is old hat to Western experts, has been tried experimentally in various parts of the U.S. for more than a decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Spectrum | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

...Plowless Folly. Nor does Dr. Kellogg think much of "plowless farming," a fad promoted by Edward Faulkner's Plowman's Folly. Sometimes, Kellogg says, it is a good idea to avoid plowing, so as to leave a layer of litter on the surface, but the plowless method works only in special cases. "Some farmers and gardeners," says he, "in the eastern part of the U.S.-especially city gardeners-took the doctrine literally and planted corn in fields of Bermuda grass-corn that got a few inches high, turned yellow, and finally perished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sense About Soil | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...Plowless Proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 23, 1943 | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

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