1. The first question Ferrie always asks a farmer wanting to go with a mono-crop: What are you expecting for yield with this crop rotation change? “When we grow the same crop back-to-back ...

The most effective crop rotation schedule allows for three to four years between planting crops of the same family in the ...

These three plants yield better together than when they are planted on a mono-crop basis ... field in consecutive crop years, though most are likely using a corn-soybean rotation.

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 ...

URBANA, Ill. — A nine-year study comparing a typical two-year corn and soybean rotation with a more intensive three-year ...