While the majority of Midwestern farmers rotate corn and soybeans, commodity prices and corn yield advantages compel some to ...

LOS BAÑOS, Laguna—The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) celebrated the milestone of having set the world record of cropping seasons by having planted its 183rd crop in its Long-Term ...

The paper, “Comparing continuous-corn and soybean-corn rotation cropping systems in the U.S. central Midwest: Trade-offs among crop yield, nutrient losses, and change in soil organic carbon ...

Although about 20% of Illinois cropping systems are planted to continuous corn, it's nearly impossible to find fields planted this way for decades at a time. Yet long-term experiments, including ...

A long-term field experiment was established on a kaolinitic Alfisol in Ibadan, Nigeria, in 1972. The land was cleared manually from secondary forest and used for (i) continuous no-till cropping with ...

Research published in Agronomy Journal in 2017 reported that rainfed fields across the Midwest suffered an average 4.3 percent yield penalty in continuous corn production and a 10.3 percent yield ...

Continuous cropping obstacles (CCOs) refer to the phenomenon that the same crop or its related species are continuously planted on the same plot, and even under normal management conditions, the ...

J. T. Willard, Effect upon the Composition of the Soil of Continuous Cropping by Wheat, Transactions of the Annual Meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science, Vol. 17 (1899 - 1900), pp. 41-42 ...