The Rodale Institute’s 40-Year-Report on their Farming Systems Trial should end the myth of the toxic, GMO herbicide, no-till systems. Rodale’s scientific trials clearly show that on every key criterion, these degenerative no-till systems are inferior to Regenerative Organic Agriculture. (Rodale 2022)

The Farming Systems Trial showed that the organic manure systems that used standard or limited tillage had higher levels of soil organic matter (soil organic carbon) and higher crop yields than GMO herbicide no-till. The trials produced the highest yields of maize, and increases in soil organic carbon where the organic manure system used limited tillage. The field was tilled every second year.

No-till does not produce higher levels of SOC

This information is consistent with a large body of science that shows that herbicide no-till systems do not produce higher levels of soil organic carbon (SOC) than tillage systems.

An earlier US study comparing herbicide GMO no-till with an organic agricultural tillage system compared multiple parameters.