Scientists at the USDA–Agricultural Research Service Central Great Plains Research Station in Akron, Colo., are in the 20th year of a major project to determine which alternative crops farmers could ...

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 ...

A new study from researchers at the University of Minnesota and Iowa State University finds that diversifying crop rotations can greatly reduce negative environmental and health impacts, while ...

Crop rotation strategies can differ from region to region and farm to farm, depending on a farm’s cropping needs and choices. Currently, a grass-heavy rotation exists on many High Plains farms due to ...

KANSAS CITY – Industry partnerships, including one between ADM and PepsiCo, Inc., are boosting regenerative agriculture efforts, and so are profitable crop rotations, including those featuring legumes ...

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 ...

Growing more legumes, like beans and lentils, is potentially a more sustainable and nutritious approach to European agriculture, shows a new study in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. This study ...

April 12 (UPI) --On large farms, traditional crop rotations typically consist of barley, wheat and rapeseed. According to a new study -- published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Sustainable Food ...

A new free-to-use crop rotation planning tool is designed to help growers weigh up the financial and environmental benefits of different crop rotation options. Based on data from hundreds of crops in ...