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Agriculture & Farming

Every published story in Agriculture & Farming on UpdateSee, newest first.

Why crop rotation keeps soil productive

Written for UpdateSee: the essentials, without the noise. Growing the same crop in the same field year after year tends to exhaust particular nutrients and lets pests and diseases that favour that crop build up. Crop…

By Samuel Adeyemi

Cover crops and the case for never leaving soil bare

A short, useful read for the UpdateSee community. Bare soil between harvests is vulnerable to wind, heavy rain and the loss of nutrients that wash away before the next crop can use them. Cover crops such as clover…

By Maya Thornton
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