Cropaia

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

This guide outlines the essential agronomic considerations for optimizing yield and quality in potato crops. High-salinity soils can negatively affect tuber quality and yield, making salt-sensitive varieties particularly vulnerable. Soil type and texture have a significant impact on potato harvest quality and yield.

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Farmers use natural methods to maintain soil health, control pests, and boost yields. Organic pepper farming encourages biodiversity by incorporating companion planting, crop rotation, and organic fertilizers. This sustainable approach benefits both the environment and consumers.

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Cropaia

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Crop rotation is a common agronomic practice that involves the systematic sequencing of different crops in a specific field over several seasons. This technique aims to enhance soil fertility, control pests and diseases, and optimize crop yield.

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ATTRA

MARCH 4, 2025

Authors of the study primarily attributed the increase in optimum nitrogen rates to increased loss during wetter springs and the nutrient demands of higher yields. Some of the practices that increase nitrogen fertilizer efficiency the most are crop rotation, improved drainage, and spring fertilizer application.

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Western FarmPress

JULY 9, 2024

For growing high-yielding, quality peanuts with an unusual crop rotation, Shannon Nixon and his family are the 2024 Farm Press Peanut Efficiency Award winners from the lower Southeast.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 31, 2025

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 growing area , this can look a few different ways. Crop rotation involves rotating crops or crop families from one growing period to the next.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Farmers utilize a range of modern toolsfrom task management applications and drones that monitor crop health to sensors and software that help forecast yields. Farmers saving 30% on fertilizer costs and boosting crop yields by up to 10% are not uncommon with these insights.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 2025

of new cropland areas produced yields below the national average, with a mean yield deficit of 6.5%. In the UK, it is common practice to introduce leys into the cropping rotation. This simply means turning cropland into temporary pastureland for roughly 2-5 years and back to cropping. Unfortunately, 69.5%

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

For example, researchers utilize the long-term farming systems trials at USDA’s Agricultural Research Service station in Beltsville, MD , to address nutrients, weeds, soil health, greenhouse gas mitigation, and net economic returns in organic field crop rotations. Maintaining yields and managing production costs.

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Hartwood Farm

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I wanted to name this “Ignoring the (Crop Rotation) Experts,” but that title is way too loaded these days! However, in terms of crop rotation, I increasingly find the rigidity of ideas on how to do it chafing. Crop rotation is one of the funny areas in gardening full of super rigid ideas and proscriptions.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Nutrients and irrigation speed up crop development, increase crop yield and prevent contamination. Determine The Timing To Add Nutrients Fertilizer timing is critical to maximize crop health, yield, and profitability. The approach ensures the crop receives enough nutrition early in its growth for higher yields.

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World Agri-Tech

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Using new MoAs and different methods of controlling the weeds such as manual weeding or crop rotations are crucial to addressing the challenge of resistant weeds and ensuring the sustainability of crop protection solutions.

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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 18, 2025

The major achievements of the Green Revolution consisted of the development of high-yielding crop varieties, increased mechanization, synthetic fertilizers, a dizzying array of pesticides (herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, etc.), and various production technologies. This production is mostly used for animal feeds and biofuels.

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

To ensure a successful wheat production and maximize yields, it is crucial to implement best practices in wheat management throughout the growing season. This article will guide you through the key aspects of wheat management, including planting, fertilizing, irrigating, harvesting, and crop rotation.

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Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in regenerative agriculture, a holistic approach to farming that seeks to restore and revitalize the land while improving crop yields and overall farm profitability. This means increased crop yields and reduced inputs like fertilizers and pesticides.

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Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In this article, we'll share the top 10 tips to boost your farm's efficiency, productivity, and yields – all with a dash of farm flair! Get to know your soil by testing it, and then bring in the heavy hitters compost and cover crops. Healthy soil is the foundation for healthy crops. Crop Rotation A crop mixtape if you will.

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Agwired

MARCH 7, 2024

A recent study at the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment found that replacing 40 pounds of synthetic nitrogen with Pivot Bio PROVEN® 40 can increase corn yields while reducing reliance on synthetic fertilizer. Other results from the studies indicated higher corn yields.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Funding] should focus more on paying farmers to switch to more drought-tolerant crops, to incorporate conservation crop rotations and to adopt other conservation practices that make their operations more resilient to climate change.”

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DTN

JANUARY 9, 2025

Long-term Strategic Planning By analyzing multi-year trends in weather patterns, crop yields, and market prices, ag retailers can help farmers make informed decisions about crop rotations, equipment investments, and long-term sustainability strategies.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 31, 2023

Cover crops refer to vegetation planted in empty fields— covering the soil, get it?—at They can also be added to crop rotations to improve soil health in fields that have been degraded from growing the same thing year after year. Cover cropping is a means of increasing soil fertility without chemicals.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Sorghum flour has local roots, as the crop sorghum is grown and harvested at farms all across the Great Plains. These farms use regenerative agriculture practices to produce successful yields of sorghum , a crop that can diversify typical crop rotations and provide some of the same soil health benefits of cover crops.

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Agricultural Economics Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Cash Rents and Expected Revenue Figure 1 shows cash rental expense as a percentage of budgeted crop revenue. The underlying data are derived from the Purdue University budget estimates and assume a 50:50 crop rotation on high-quality Indiana farmland. Expectations about revenue – commodity prices and yields – are also important.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 28, 2024

Implement a Crop Rotation Plan Crop rotation is the process of growing different crops in a sequential, multi-year cycle. It's important to rotate crops because it helps prevent disease and pests from developing on your land. Consider incorporating legumes into your crop rotation plan.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

During this transition period, yields can drop and farmers can still be years away from a return. They have to use lots of cover crops, and they have to have a more intense crop rotation and they may use some tillage. The investment of time is not without risk. There [are] some infrastructure issues.

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

While there may be concerns about potential short-term yield reductions during this transition, these practices offer long-term benefits for soil health, environmental sustainability, and overall farm resilience. Yield reduction may be a result of a reduction in nutrient availability (e.g.,

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DTN

JULY 24, 2023

Two neighbors, Farmer A and Farmer B: both farm 1,000 acres and use the same crop rotation schedule. Farmer A tills 30% of their fields, uses cover crops on 20%, and applies anhydrous ammonia. Farmer B tills 50% of their fields, uses cover crops on 40%, and uses stable nitrogen sources. Consider this scenario.

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Agwired

MAY 21, 2024

Syngenta’s Tyler Harp at 2024 Commodity Classic With ear rots becoming more common and stealing more corn yield, Syngenta has some recommendations for managing mycotoxins and maximizing silage return on investment. million bushels and 49.4 million bushels, respectively. “We

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Including noncrop vegetation alongside crops may further increase genetic diversity in a geographic area, as with prairie strips or field borders and other conservation buffers within or adjacent to crop fields. And diversity may also include the temporal diversity of crop rotations.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Poor soils can cut crop yields by up to 50 percent—which, if we’re not careful, could result in more soil being tilled to grow more crops, which degrades more soil, which pushes us closer to climate catastrophe. And that has direct impacts on our food supply and climate.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 25, 2023

In 2022, the Soil and Water Outcomes Fund provided an average of $34 per acre to farmers who transitioned to on-farm conservation practices that yield outcomes like carbon sequestration and water quality improvements.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Lastly, ever increasing crop yields over the decades has meant more calcium (Ca 2+ ), magnesium (Mg 2+ ) and potassium (K + ) leaves the field at harvest, which has the same effect as them leaching in high rainfall areas because H + is allowed to reign, and the balance of positively charged nutrients is thrown out of whack. *The

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ATTRA

APRIL 7, 2024

The four-year study published in Science collected data from 24 research projects on more than 20 different types of diversification practices, including crop rotation, hedgerows, biochar application, mulching, livestock diversification, and water conservation.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In some of our early-stage testing in Egypt, we’ve seen up to double the yields in those really difficult conditions.” Founded in 2018 through the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, the company studied common crops and the difficulties with growing them in desert regions without huge amounts of energy and water resources.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 23, 2023

Healthy soil can mean increased yields (and profits) as well as fewer inputs like fertilizer or pesticides. Rotate your crops. Rotating crops is one of the best ways to improve long-term soil health on your farm. Here are six ways you can improve long-term soil health on your farm: What is soil health?

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Agwired

AUGUST 3, 2023

Group 2 herbicides are commonly used to manage weeds in cereal and other crop rotations and can persist in the soil for months following use.

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Cropaia

JANUARY 6, 2024

Herbicides are essential tools in modern agriculture, helping farmers manage weed infestations and maximize crop yields. Plant Resistant Varieties When using herbicides like glyphosate in post-emergent applications, ensure that the crop is genetically modified to withstand the herbicide.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As we venture further into the pool, farmers may achieve increased biodiversity and water quality by incorporating more complicated strategies and Indigenous approaches like diversified crop rotations and agroforestry. In the deep end, outcomes are sought to benefit the farmers and stewards of whole landscapes themselves.

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