We ask a lot of our gardens: Brilliant flowers, productive vegetables, pest-free plants and fertile soil. To get these lush results, sometimes we need to employ more than just water and compost. Crop ...

Agriculture stands as the backbone of global food security, yet conventional farming practices often come at the cost of soil degradation and stagnating crop yields. Crop rotation — a longstanding ...

An international study involving INRAE and coordinated by China Agriculture University has shown that the practice of crop rotation outperforms continuous monoculture in terms of yield, nutritional ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) are responding to the increasingly uncertain climate. The warmer and more unpredictable weather has been a ...

Soil is the core resource of agricultural production. It not only provides crops with nutrients and water for growth but also supports multiple ecological functions such as microbial activity and ...

Although crop rotation is practised widely in Europe, notably for the control of crop pests, diseases and invasive weeds, monocultures[1] still dominate in Africa and Southern Asia. Elsewhere, ...

A new winter-rotation oilseed crop has been generated from a freeze-tolerant wild field pennycress by de novo domestication, reducing its glucosinolate and erucic acid contents, as well as its ...

Farmers have utilized rotations of multiple crops over a several year period for hundreds or perhaps even thousands of years. Archeological evidence suggests that farmers in the Fertile Crescent ...