As crops grow, they remove nutrients from the soil; however, some crops return certain nutrients over the seasons and between species. Unlike a natural ecosystem, in which there is a balanced exchange of nutrients between old growth and new growth, a...

A state or condition of arable (i.e. crop-growing) land in which it is left untended for a period, usually for at least a year. The state is an integral component of a crop rotation system in which the farmer works with the land, allowing natural...

The French landowner and lawyer Olivier de Serres (1539-1619) published in 1600 his book Théatre d'agriculture, which described systematic crop rotation for the first time. His ideas were developed further in England by Sir Richard Weston...

Crop rotation or Crop sequencing is the practice of growing a series of dissimilar types of crops in the same space in sequential seasons for various benefits such as to avoid the build up of pathogens and pests that often occurs when one species is...

Byline: GEOFFREY C. LEWIS Editorial Director glewis@primediabusiness.com On page 17, we list 21 magazines that passed from the scene in 2003. This is by no means a comprehensive list - hundreds of others were born, lived and died beneath the radar. But...

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Water shortages in the Mediterranean, flash floods along the Rhine and summers so hot that nuclear power stations can't cool down. This is what Europe can expect as its climate warms over the next decades, a European Union paper warned Friday, as it laid out...

Most wheat and barley producing states have dodged a grain-withering fungus this year, plant pathologists and producers say.Fusarium head blight _ commonly known as scab _ was nearly nonexistent this year in all wheat and grain states except Nebraska and Kansas, said Dave Van Sanford,...