You can promote healthy soil in your garden and cut down on plant disease by practicing a three-year cycle of crop rotation with eight plant families. Originally published as "Maintain Healthy ...

Crop rotation can also enable the soil to retain more organic matter and store or “sequester” carbon when combined with low-till or no-till practices. ... Create a chart or map, ...

While most Midwestern farmers rotate corn and soybeans, commodity prices and corn yield advantages compel some to plant corn ...

Researchers investigated the impact of increasing crop rotation length and complexity on crop yields in organic agricultural systems over a ten year period. They found that longer, more complex ...

Crop rotation is a planned sequence of different crop types, such as spring-seeded cereals, fallseeded cereals, oilseeds, pulses, perennial legumes and other perennial species. Rotations also include ...

In an analysis of 18 years of crop yield and farm management data from a long-term trial, an organic crop rotation was consistently more profitable and carried less risk of low returns than ...

While the majority of Midwestern farmers rotate corn and soybeans, commodity prices and corn yield advantages compel some to ...

Crop rotation can have many benefits for your vegetable garden, such as those outlined by our experts. Pest Management ...

While demand for organic meat and milk is increasing by about 20% ... area farmers need information on expected crop yields and effective ... Organic corn: Increasing rotation complexity ...