THE time-tested advantages of crop rotations and the goals of low-input, sustainable
agriculture are synonymous in most respects. Crop rotations are basic to the manner in …

Crop rotation has been practiced from the time immemorial, and every farmer is quite
familiar with it. If only one crop is sown in a particular field year after year, the roots of the …

Crop rotation is defined as a system of growing different kinds of crops in recurrent
succession and in definite sequence on the same land, 1, 3 as distinguished from …

by Keith R. Baldwin armers in ancient cultures as diverse as those of China, Greece, and
Rome shared a common understanding about crop rotations. They learned from experience …

Agricultural sustainability requires that the individual farm firm be competitive and profitable
while simultaneously enhancing environmental quality and the natural resource base upon …

By E. TYork, Chancellor Emeritus, State University System-of Florida ne must marvel at the
wisdom and foresight of those responsible for initiating the Old Rotation experiment a …

Crop rotation has been used as an effective tool of pest, disease, and weed management
since distant past which dates back to the Roman and Greek times. The magnitude of yield …

Crop rotation has been used for thousands of years. During the 1950s and early 1960s, it
was felt that synthetic fertilizers and pesticides could forever replace crop rotation without …

100 rangement that results in the crops competing with one another. l Monocropping, or
monoculture, refers to the presence of a single crop in a field. This term is often used to refer …

Requirements imposed by government farm policies, shifts in the economics of farming
practices, and the public's concern in protecting the environment and conserving our natural …