A farmer mowing a field of commercial turf in Burscough, Lancashire, UK, driving a Fendt 514 Vario tractor mowing a new crop of grasses, green, grass, nature, lawn, grow, plant, growth, field, background, meadow, spring, natural, summer, garden, environment, grown for the local demand for turf. These fields are growing grass this year is part of the farmers crop rotation system. The principle of crop rotation is to grow specific groups of vegetables on different parts of the farm each year.
Crop rotation is the practice of growing a series of dissimilar or different types of crops in the same area in sequenced is done so that the soil of farms is not used to only one type of nutrient. It helps in reducing soil erosion and increases soil fertility and crop yield. Growing the same crop in the same place for many years in a row disproportionately depletes the soil of certain nutrients. With rotation, a crop that leaches the soil of one kind of nutrient is followed during the next growing season by a dissimilar crop that returns that nutrient to the soil or draws a different ratio of nutrients. In addition, crop rotation mitigates the buildup of pathogens and pests that often occurs when one species is continuously cropped, and can also improve soil structure and fertility by increasing biomass from varied root structures. Crop rotation is used in both conventional and organic farming systems.
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Location: Burscough, Lancashire, UK
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