A nine-year study comparing a typical two-year corn and soybean rotation with a more intensive three-year rotation involving corn, cereal rye, soybean and winter wheat, found that the three-year ...

Scotty and Jo Herriman, of South Coffeyville, Oklahoma, were the recipients of the 2024 Oklahoma Leopold Conservation Award.

When they bought it, cereal crops and grassland made up most ... is "rebuilding" the soil on the farm by focusing on a crop rotation using what's known as a herbal ley, a mix of herbs, grasses ...

The cereal rye was terminated with herbicide ... and the fact that earthworms are now abundant in the diverse crop rotation," he said. "It's interesting to note that both rotations used a ...