Discover how immigrant groups, including Germans, Irish, and Scots, influenced early American agriculture. Learn how laborers became ...

No-till and reduced-till systems have gained popularity for their benefits to soil health, moisture retention, and erosion ...

One of the rules of good organic gardening is to rotate plant families from one season to the next, as best you can, so related crops are not planted in the same spot more often than every three years ...

Approaches to crop production that successfully reduce weed seed production can benefit farming systems by reducing management inputs and costs. A 5-yr rotation study was conducted in order to ...

On September 3rd, the AGree Coalition released a paper entitled Diversified Farming Systems and U.S. Agricultural Policy that I co-authored with Dr. Rob Myers from the University of Missouri and ...

Rotating crops fertilized with livestock manure does not increase soil carbon levels, according to preliminary results of an ongoing study from Iowa State University. Why it matters: The findings ...

When the Southern Cover Crops Council held its annual conference recently in Baton Rouge, I was fortunate to sit in on panel discussions with farmers and specialty crops (vegetables, fruits, nuts and ...

The most important role of crop rotation is to prevent the build-up of pest and disease problems in the soil to which a crop is susceptible. If the same crop or a similar type belonging to the same ...

Realistically, the extent of crop rotation possible in a small backyard garden is limited, but the principle of alternating what is planted on one spot still stands. Many gardeners are able to find 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 ...

ELLENSBURG — The star of Kittitas Valley agriculture is timothy hay, but farmers this season are planting an array of rotation crops. Sudan grass and alfalfa are common rotation crops for high-value ...

My grandmother used to tell me that I am not supposed to plant the same crop on the same land consecutively. And when I asked her why not? Her reply would be it was not right. Well, that is where her ...