URBANA, Ill. — Take a break from summer garden care and watering for a conversation about native bees and crop rotation. Two ...

Crop rotation is a strategy of garden planning and planting that prioritizes planting crops of different families in the same area of a garden in successive years. Rather than growing the same ...

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 involves rotating crops or crop families from one growing period to the next. For example, farmers may plant corn in their fields one year and soybeans the next or grow a spring crop of ...

This is the first in a series of columns featuring conversations with state Farm Bureau presidents about current issues in ...

Farming across 15 different soil types, along with three seasons of extreme weather, has made rotation planning an ...

Blackgrass is a growing problem on Irish farms and is visible in fields at present. Conor Kehoe visited a trial site in the ...

As the Fawcett family was working to complete their spring planting of durum, peas and flax, a mid-May rainstorm brought some ...