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Satellite image of circular crop fields in Haskell County, Kansas in late June 2001. Healthy, growing crops are green. Corn would be growing into leafy stalks by then. Sorghum, which resembles corn, grows more slowly and would be much smaller and therefor |
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There are 6 summaries on Crop rotation.
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 Systematic Crop Rotation Transforms Agriculture Summary
1,757 words, approx. 6 pages
 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... summary from source:
 Crop Rotation Summary
670 words, approx. 2 pages
 the successive cultivation of different crops in a specified order on the same fields, in contrast to a one-crop system or to haphazard crop successions. Throughout human history, wherever food crops have been produced, some kind of rotation cropping... summary from source:
 Crop Rotation Summary
433 words, approx. 1 pages
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... summary from source:
Crop Rotation Summary
118 words, approx. 0 pages
Successive cultivation of different crops in a specified order on the same fields. Some rotations are designed for high immediate returns, with little regard for basic resources. Others are planned for high continuing returns while protecting... summary from source:
 Fallow Summary
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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... summary from source:
 Crop rotation Summary
1,232 words, approx. 4 pages
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... 
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