No one knows who first invented the idea of using cover crops to protect soil in agriculture fields, but by 6000 B.C. farmers ...

According to the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy, an initiative aimed at reducing nitrogen and phosphorus runoff into Iowa’s ...

Red clover and ryegrass have transformed a North Yorkshire arable and beef farmer’s business and approach to farming.

Norfolk farmer Robert Scott is on a mission to take on more land for his contract farming business to maximise machinery and ...

Instead of instituting a progressive monoculture, the region’s governments could benefit from a temporal “crop rotation” of ...

During the heart of winter, the growing season might be something of an afterthought for the casual local gardener. But for ...

A rotation into value stocks could grow in popularity in the new year. Value stocks — businesses that are priced cheaply by the market — have underperformed in all of 2025, but have enjoyed a ...

Your cotton fields might benefit from several kinds of winter cover crops which can control erosion, manage nutrients, and improve soil health, including a crimson clover cover crop or even a vetch ...

Q: I've been told to rotate the crops in my vegetable garden. Last year’s garden was very successful, and I don’t want to “fix it if it is not broken”. A: Crop rotation, which has been around for ...

Crop rotation was once central to farming, helping prevent soil erosion, suppress weeds, and even reduce pests and diseases. Though less common in today’s chemically intensive systems, its ecological ...

Although crop rotation is practised widely in Europe, notably for the control of crop pests, diseases and invasive weeds, monocultures[1] still dominate in Africa and Southern Asia. Elsewhere, ...