Dry, shallow turned field during severe drought in Kansas, USA.


Farmers use a technique called chiselling to lightly turn wheat chaff back into the top soil to prevent the loss of soil to wind which is more common with the traditional method of plowing deep rows of soil for crops.


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Photo credit: © Melanie Blanding / Alamy / Afripics
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