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Crop rotation was important because it stops the soil from getting stripped of the important nutrients, and provides nutrients to the soil. It also helps from the soil getting stripped away itself when a farmer varies between long rooted plants and short rooted plants.

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Why is crop rotation significance?

Crop rotation is significant because it helps to maintain soil fertility by preventing nutrient depletion. It can also help control pests and diseases that are specific to certain crops. Additionally, crop rotation can improve crop yield and overall farm productivity.


In order to keep the soil fertile farmers often change the crop that is grown in a field every two to three years. What is this process called?

This process is known as crop rotation. Crop rotation helps prevent soil depletion and disease buildup by alternating different types of crops in the same area over a period of time.


What do you call soil conservation method of planting different crops instead of the same crop year after year?

Crop rotation.


What was a system of crop rotation that allowed for soil replenisment?

The three-field system was a crop rotation system where one field was planted with a winter crop like wheat, one with a spring crop like barley or oats, and one left fallow. This allowed for the soil to replenish its nutrients as different crops would extract different nutrients from the soil.


What was important in helping the agricultural revolution the seed drill or crop rotation?

both were crucial developments to agriculture. the seed drill allowed farmers to plant more seeds at a greater rate, increasing production. the crop rotation allowed farmers to make more use of their farmlands by replenishing the nutrients to the soils through differing plants on their fields or leaving their fields fallow. this prevented their land from depleated nutrient levels and becomming unusable, which generally meant the fields were left to errode away.

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How is crop rotation important to cotton farmers?

Crop rotation was important to farmers because it helped them out by making it easier to crop in the winter from different land in another state.


How is crop rotation important to the crop farmers?

Crop rotation is important to the cotton farmers because they need the nutrients from the soil for other crops so they don't use it all in just one kind of plant.


How is crop rotation important to farmers?

it helps control pests and diseases


How you s crop rotation important to cotton farmers?

cheeze is good


How is crop rotation important to the cotton farmers?

Crop rotation is important to the cotton farmers because they need the nutrients from the soil for other crops so they don't use it all in just one kind of plant.


Why is soybean important in the southeast?

Soybean is a cash crop and is also used in crop rotation to put nitrogen back into the soil.


Why is 4 field crop rotation better than 3 year crop rotation?

4 field crop rotation is better than 3 year crop rotation because it could get the job done faster


Does crop rotation lead to soil erosion?

No, The crop rotation is to avoide soil erosion.


What advantages of crop rotation?

Crop rotation allows the soil to recover. Proper crop rotation will replace nutrients that are consumed by the previous crop. Planting the same crop year after year will deplete certain nutrients and make the soil unproductive.


Crop rotation inventor?

Middle Eastern farmers were the inventors of crop rotations. They were known to practice crop rotation as early as 6000 BC.


What are the ethical issues using crop rotation?

There isn't any really .. crop rotation is alright tbh :)


Is crop uptake the same as crop rotation?

No. Crop uptake is the water and nutrients the plant moves from its roots up to its leaves, and crop rotation is changing which crop is grown in a given field from one crop cycle to the next.