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Crop Rotation Principles
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Rye
Rye rotation provides excellent weed suppression, can improve soil structure, and disrupts pest cycles.
Cauliflower
Rotating cauliflower with non-brassica crops can suppress disease and nematode issues and can enhance soil structure.
Cucumber
Rotation with crops like corn or wheat can help prevent the buildup of cucumber-specific diseases and pests.
Sorghum
Rotating sorghum with legumes can enhance soil nitrogen and reduce soil pathogens.
Soybeans
Rotating soybeans with non-leguminous crops helps break disease and pest cycles and can improve soil structure.
Oats
Including oats in rotation can reduce weed competition and act as a disease break crop for cereals.
Tomato
Rotating tomatoes with brassicas or cereals can reduce problems with nematodes and soil-borne diseases.
Cabbage
Rotating cabbage with other crop families helps manage clubroot and other brassica diseases.
Carrot
Rotating carrots with crops like onions can help reduce pressure from nematodes and other soil-borne pathogens.
Barley
Barley rotated with legumes or root crops can lead to improved soil nitrogen and break disease cycles.
Sugar beets
Including sugar beets in the rotation can improve soil structure and provides a break for cereal and legume pests.
Sunflower
Introducing sunflower into rotations can help in managing soil diseases and pests, and can also improve soil texture.
Alfalfa
Rotating alfalfa with crops like corn can significantly improve soil nitrogen levels and reduce weed pressure.
Corn (Maize)
Rotating corn with legumes improves soil nitrogen levels and reduces pests like the corn rootworm.
Rice
Rotating rice with upland crops can conserve water, improve soil health, and reduce pest and weed pressure.
Chickpeas
Rotating chickpeas with cereals or non-leguminous crops helps to prevent soil-borne diseases and optimizes nitrogen use.
Peas
Rotating with cereals like wheat can reduce the incidence of root rot and improve soil nitrogen for the subsequent crop.
Peanuts
Including peanuts in a rotation can improve soil fertility with nitrogen fixation and helps manage certain pests.
Broccoli
Rotating broccoli with alternative crop families can help manage pests like aphids and diseases such as clubroot.
Canola (Oilseed Rape)
Canola rotation can reduce soil-borne diseases and insect pest populations, especially when followed by cereals.
Spinach
Spinach benefits from rotation with crops that have different pest and disease profiles to avoid soil pathogen buildup.
Wheat
Wheat rotation can reduce the risk of fusarium head blight and can be a break crop for managing pests in other cereals.
Potatoes
Rotating potatoes with green manures/green crops can suppress nematode populations and rebuild soil fertility.
Cotton
Rotation with cereals or legumes can reduce pathogen loads in soil and improve soil structure.
Lettuce
Rotation with brassicas or cereals can help manage soil-borne diseases and pest populations affecting lettuce.
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