We know what you’re thinking: what is crop rotation? Well, it’s as simple as it sounds. Crop rotation is the practice of rotating crops belonging to specific groups around a vegetable bed from year to ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Today’s topic is crop rotation. Basically you don’t want to plant the same crop in the same area every year. Rotating your crops throughout the garden space will help maintain ...

In the first study of its kind, new research shows that crop rotations, in isolation from other management factors, can increase the functions performed by soil microbial communities that benefit ...

After decades of effort, scientists are finally figuring out how insects develop resistance to environmentally friendly farming practices -- such as crop rotation-- that are designed to kill them. The ...

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 ...

Crop rotation is a planned sequence of different crop types, such as spring-seeded cereals, fallseeded cereals, oilseeds, pulses, perennial legumes and other perennial species. Rotations also include ...

Farmers and gardeners are always chasing that delicate balance between lush, thriving crops and sneaky pests lurking in the soil. But skipping one of the oldest tricks in the book—crop rotation—can ...