Stepping into your garden after a long winter and realizing you’ve become a vegetable tycoon is a feeling unlike any other. Gardeners everywhere dream of that moment—the moment when everything you ...

Farmers have utilized rotations of multiple crops over a several year period for hundreds or perhaps even thousands of years. Archeological evidence suggests that farmers in the Fertile Crescent ...

Crop rotation optimisation seeks to design sequences of crops over multiple seasons that balance agronomic productivity, resource use efficiency and ecosystem service delivery. By varying crop species ...

Raising a vegetable garden with years of continuous success and high-yielding plants is a skill. However, it’s not just a matter of having a green thumb. Utilizing crop rotation in the garden can ...

U. of I. natural resources and environmental sciences researcher Lowell Gentry and his colleagues found that an intensive three-year crop-rotation system reduced nitrate pollution runoff by 50% ...

Despite climate challenges, the study suggests increasing crop rotation can still improve overall yields and highlights its potential as a climate adaptation strategy. MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL ...