By 12/15/2020 Vertical tillage is a good tool for farmers who want to till, but still preserve residue. Like all tools, though, it has limitations. “In 2011, we dealt with a flood, and there were southwestern Manitoba areas that were typically no-till,” says Marla Riekman, a soil management specialist with Manitoba Agriculture’s ag resource branch who spoke at this week’s virtual Soil Management Summit (SMS) “People were in a panic about how they were going to deal with (plant into) all this residue and wet soils and they didn’t know what to do. So, they started trying vertical tillage.”