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‘Crop rotation is usually done on a three- or four-year cycle,’ explains Graham Smith MCIHort, gardening expert at LBS ...
While most Midwestern farmers rotate corn and soybeans, commodity prices and corn yield advantages compel some to plant corn ...
Crop rotation is an ancient practice, dating back to pre-Roman times, to preserve soil fertility. Here’s how you can do it in your Marin garden.
The researchers used agroecosystem model ecosys to explain why corn yield is higher after soybean at normal nitrogen ...
Crop rotation is one of agriculture’s oldest cultural practices. In a home vegetable garden, crop rotation is achieved by changing the location of vegetables within the garden each season.
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 ...
Crop rotation strategies can differ from region to region and farm to farm, depending on a farm’s cropping needs and choices. Currently, a grass-heavy rotation exists on many High Plains farms ...
In “Kitchen Garden Living” (Cool Springs Press, 2025), author Bailey Van Tassel invokes an easily memorized rhyme concerning crop rotation in the vegetable garden: “beans, roots, greens ...