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

‘Crop rotation is usually done on a three- or four-year cycle,’ explains Graham Smith MCIHort, gardening expert at LBS ...

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.

Man seeks square deal, patents wheel. MELBOURNE, ... But according to The Age newspaper, he has no plan to patent fire, crop rotation or other fundamental advances in civilization.

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 ...

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 ...

Since we know it’s going to happen, let’s talk about a couple of things that often get overlooked that could help us out next year: crop rotation and cover crops. If you are like me, you have ...

The four-crop rotation does take more management skills and a desire to use a joint-farming operation, but when energy prices go up, it might be a more attractive option for farmers.