Crop rotation ... Using legumes in rotation began to decline when synthetic nitrogen was introduced in the 1940's. Making rotations shorter (not including perennials, pastures, green manures and ...

The conventional commercial fertilizers are used only on the non-organic section. Another study involves the economics comparison of a two year and three year crop rotation in the non-organic section, ...

Special attention is given to soil fertility, organic soil amendments, compost and mulches, crop rotation, plant health, management of diseases and pests, companion planting, and produce ...

reversing the decades long trend of declining organic matter across our agricultural soils." More information: Lowell E. Gentry et al, A diverse rotation of corn-soybean-winter wheat/double crop ...

"Our study was designed to see if a more diverse crop rotation could reduce tile nitrate ... of oxygen-loving microbes that consume soil-organic matter, releasing more nitrate.