Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... You grew tomatoes successfully in that sunny corner of your garden last year, so why shouldn’t you plant this year’s seedlings in the same spot? It’s ...

Discover my Full Garden Plan 2026 with a complete walkthrough of layout, crop rotations, and companion planting strategies!

One of the rules of good organic gardening is to rotate plant families from one season to the next, as best you can, so related crops are not planted in the same spot more often than every three years ...

After the holidays, the kids will go back to school and you know what that means – everyone in the house will soon come down with the same symptoms – the sniffles and a sore throat. But what if when ...

While the majority of Midwestern farmers rotate corn and soybeans, commodity prices and corn yield advantages compel some to plant corn year after year. Although foundational research on the benefits ...

ST. PAUL -- Controlling weeds can be a battle for corn and soybean farmers, but organic producers face special challenges and higher risks. Weed management for organic crop production falls into two ...

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 ...

URBANA, Ill. - Many farmers grow corn and soybean in rotation to avoid the continuous corn yield penalty, but now there's another reason to rotate. Scientists at the University of Illinois have ...

Many farmers grow corn and soybean in rotation to avoid the continuous corn yield penalty, but now there's another reason to rotate. Scientists have provided further evidence that rotating crops ...