Crop rotation is a strategy of garden planning and planting that prioritizes planting crops of different families in the same area of a garden in successive years. Rather than growing the same ...

This is the first in a series of columns featuring conversations with state Farm Bureau presidents about current issues in ...

Farming across 15 different soil types, along with three seasons of extreme weather, has made rotation planning an ...

Crop rotation involves rotating crops or crop families from one growing period to the next. For example, farmers may plant corn in their fields one year and soybeans the next or grow a spring crop of ...

Crop rotation also allows horticulturists to manage their soil fertility and balance nutrients used by certain families of plants. “Some crops are heavy feeders of nutrients and can deplete the ...

Blackgrass is a growing problem on Irish farms and is visible in fields at present. Conor Kehoe visited a trial site in the ...

They discovered rotating crops was beneficial to increase their harvest. Throughout the centuries crop rotation became a staple practice of agriculture. This practice was “tested” in the 1950s ...

As the Fawcett family was working to complete their spring planting of durum, peas and flax, a mid-May rainstorm brought some ...

Crops are grown in this way for efficiency ... 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 and clovers that ...