While the majority of Midwestern farmers rotate corn and soybeans, commodity prices and corn yield advantages compel some to ...

Crop rotation is one of agriculture’s oldest cultural practices. In a home vegetable garden, crop rotation is achieved by changing the location of vegetables within the garden each season.

Crop rotation also allows horticulturists to manage their soil fertility and balance nutrients used by certain families of plants. “Some crops are heavy feeders of nutrients and can deplete the ...

In “Kitchen Garden Living” (Cool Springs Press, 2025), author Bailey Van Tassel invokes an easily memorized rhyme concerning crop rotation in the vegetable garden: “beans, roots, greens ...

Grow with KARE: Crop rotation You prevent soil depletion by rotating the types of crops planted in each section of your garden seasonally. To stream KARE 11 on your phone, you need the KARE 11 app.

When people talk about crop diversity, they may be referring to one of a few different farming practices. While crop diversification always involves increasing the number of species present in a ...