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Advantages of crop rotation ... Crop rotation is one of the oldest and most effective cultural control strategies. It means the planned order of specific crops planted on the same field. It also means that the succeeding crop belongs to a different family than the previous one.
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on crop rotation (agriculture), the successive cultivation of different crops in a specified order on the same fields, in contrast to a one-crop system or to haphazard crop successions. ... A simple rotation would be one crop from each group with a 1:1:1 ratio. The first number in...
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www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/143973/crop-rotation
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Crop rotation is commonly used on farms, and is just as important in the home garden. How to rotate crops. ... Crop Rotation is a farming practice, where different crops are planted in a certain section of the farm or garden each year.
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www.gardenersnet.com/atoz/rotate.htm
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A three-year rotation of corn-soybean-wheat appears to be optimum for sustained yield of all three crops. Crop rotation is the most effective method t ... Wheat also serves as an excellent rotation crop for corn and soybeans, allowing populations of pathogens (like soybean cyst nematode and Sclerotinia) to decline before...
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ohioline.osu.edu/iwy/croprota.html
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Soil living pests and diseases, which thrive on that particular crop, can build up in the soil to epidemic levels. Vegetables also have various mineral needs and continuous cropping of one particular crop can lead to the levels of nutrients in the soil ... The most common system used is the '3 Bed' rotation system.
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www.powen.freeserve.co.uk/advanced/CropRtn.htm
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Get seasonal tips for garden crop rotation and find out how rotation balances nutrient demands, foils insect attacks and deters weeds in this adaptation from Shepherd Ogden’s Straight-Ahead Organic. ... The most basic form of crop rotation is also the simplest: never plant the same thing in the same place twice.
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www.care2.com/greenliving/crop-rotation.html
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Crop rotation is an important factor when planning the vegetable garden. Many disease organisms are soil-borne and may persist in the soil for several years. Disease problems often increase when the same crop is planted in the same area in successive years.
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www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/hortnews/1998/3-27-1998/rotateg...
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Over the years, many Kentucky farmers have developed some system of rotating crops within fields with a common rotation being corn, wheat and soybeans.But some farmers are altering that practice. ... Crop rotation is most beneficial in controlling disease organisms that survive in crop residue, said Don Hershman,
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www.ca.uky.edu/agc/NEWS/2001/Jan/croprotate.htm
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