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Across three land tenancy types, Soil Tillage Intensity Rating (STIR) values fall over time for five major crops

Bar chart comparing Soil Tillage Intensity Rating (STIR) values for corn, barley, sorghum, soy, and cotton crops on owner-operated, cash-rented, and share-rented land in two survey years.

Using Agricultural Resource Management Survey data from 2011 to 2021, USDA, Economic Research Service researchers found conservation tillage systems were adopted on cash- and share-rented fields as often as on owner-operated farmland. When it came to planting cover crops, however, the analysis was mixed.

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