Rotation
When my grandparents were farming in Africa, crop and livestock rotation were standard practice. It’s only when intensive agro-industrial farming took over that we began to ignore nature’s need for diversity and regeneration. Now science is finding that not only is crop rotation environmentally and economically beneficial, but more is better. An experiment in Iowa, USA, with multi-year combinations between corn, soybean, oat and alfalfa crops concluded that four-year rotations can reduce fossil energy by 64%, carbon and particulate matter emissions by 42% and 57% respectively, while increasing corn and soybean yields and improving returns.
— Wayne Visser
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