BROOKINGS, S.D. -- Throughout the 2017 and 2018 growing seasons, a team of researchers from South Dakota State University will be assessing the impacts of diversified crop rotation cropping ...

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.

Centennial Crop Rotation Points to Profit Hell or high water, producers are often forced to chase markets. However, solid data stacked over multiple years shows the peaks and troughs of a ...

A new computational model shows how different patterns of crop rotation--planting different crops at different times in the same field--can impact long-term yield when the crops are threatened by ...

When Lesher Poultry Farm decided to start adding a sunflower field to its crop rotation plan five years ago the owners had no idea the difference it would make in so many people's lives.

Crop rotation plans can be based around any number of successive years past about 3. Pete's Patch was based around a six year/six bed system and has been quite successful.

Crop rotation helps to control weeds. Some weeds are specific to certain crops. A good example is witch weed (Striga spp), which attacks crops of the Poaceae family. This weed can be controlled ...

5 Impact on soil structure, fertility, weeds, pests and diseases. The impact of the rotation on soil structure and fertility is increasingly under the spotlight.

CROP rotation is another alternative way farmers can obtain quality yields they desire to get to the next season. This is a practice of growing different crops, one at a time, in a specific ...

Among them, Palacode alone dedicates about 2,000 ha for tomato cultivation. We have been urging farmers to take up crop rotation. But in most cases, they find alternative crops not viable, ...