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 ...

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 ...