Activities of ISTRO include:

• Sponsoring an international conference every three years on soil tillage and related subjects, the so-called Triennial conferences. An overview and additional information about the conferences since 1955 can be viewed HERE.
• Sponsoring relevant workshops, excursions and demonstrations,
• Sponsoring meetings of national and regional branches of ISTRO,
• Promoting cooperation with national and international organizations in other fields of science with similar general purposes such as the
• International Union of Soil Science (IUSS) and the World Ploughing Organization (WPO), and
• Providing scientific support for the international journal Soil & Tillage Research in which the regular bulletin of news and information, ISTRO INFO, is published.