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In the midwestern part of the US, a very common rotation would be corn the first year or two, then soybeans for a year or two, then wheat, then back to corn.

In the western US, a common rotation is wheat, then sugarbeets, then wheat, then dry beans, then corn, then potatoes or another sugarbeet crop, then back to wheat again.

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