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ROTATION IN PRACTICE
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Rotation in Practice
Corn Belt: Crop rotations that supply organic matter and nitrogen are built around corn as the major crop. Continuous corn has resulted in reduced yields where it has been practiced for any length of time. The corn-oats-clover rotation is used in the northern part of region. A four-year rotation of corn, oats, wheat, and alfalfa or clover or a grass-legume mixture is followed in the northeastern part of the Corn Belt are mostly timothy or smooth bromegrass.
Where soybeans are grown, a five-year rotation of corn, corn, soybeans, wheat, and hay is popular. Yields can be maintained when cover crops can be seeded in both corn crops and when manure and phosphate can be applied to the corn.
Cotton Belt: Definite crop sequences are less common in the Cotton Belt than in may other regions. Cotton normally occupies a larger percentage of the cropped land than any other crop. On relatively productive soils, a typical cropping system appears to be one year of corn or an annual hay crop followed by two to four years of cotton. Interplanted legumes are used in this sequence in some instances. Two suggested rotations are as follows:
1. Three-year rotation for land equally adapted to corn and cotton: cotton; summer legumes (cowpeas or soybeans) for hay or seed, followed by winter legumes; and corn interplanted with cowpeas, soybeans, or velvetbeans.
2. Four-year rotation for areas where half of the cropland is planted to cotton: cotton, followed in part by a winter legume; cotton; summer legumes for hay or seed followed by winter legumes; corn interplanted with summer legumes.
Hay-Pasture Region: Hay and pastures predominate in the northeastern states. A three-year rotation of corn for silage, oats, and hay is popular on dairy farms of the Great Lakes states where considerable land is available for pasture. Potatoes are sometimes substituted for corn as an intertilled crop. Grass-legume mixtures may be sown with spring small grains and kept two years for hay. A large percentage of the cropland is devoted to hay on many New England farms.
Irrigated Regions: In Utah, a crop rotation that included alfalfa and cultivated crops with rather heavy applications of manure effectively maintained high yields of wheat, potatoes, sugarbeets, field peas, oats, and alfalfa. A satisfactory irrigated rotation for western Nebraska is alfalfa (three years), potatoes, sugarbeets (manured), sugarbeets, and oats.
Well , that's some explanation about Rotation In Practice, Hopefully can be useful. . .
HAPPY LEARNING. . .
SOURCE:
Book Principles of Field Crop Production | John H. Martin - Warren H. Leonard | COLLIER Macmillan (1967)
Hello readers, meet again with Ahli Artikel. Today, Ahli Artikel will distribute the article entitled Rotation In Practice. Please read the explanation below.
Rotation in Practice
Corn Belt: Crop rotations that supply organic matter and nitrogen are built around corn as the major crop. Continuous corn has resulted in reduced yields where it has been practiced for any length of time. The corn-oats-clover rotation is used in the northern part of region. A four-year rotation of corn, oats, wheat, and alfalfa or clover or a grass-legume mixture is followed in the northeastern part of the Corn Belt are mostly timothy or smooth bromegrass.
Where soybeans are grown, a five-year rotation of corn, corn, soybeans, wheat, and hay is popular. Yields can be maintained when cover crops can be seeded in both corn crops and when manure and phosphate can be applied to the corn.
Cotton Belt: Definite crop sequences are less common in the Cotton Belt than in may other regions. Cotton normally occupies a larger percentage of the cropped land than any other crop. On relatively productive soils, a typical cropping system appears to be one year of corn or an annual hay crop followed by two to four years of cotton. Interplanted legumes are used in this sequence in some instances. Two suggested rotations are as follows:
1. Three-year rotation for land equally adapted to corn and cotton: cotton; summer legumes (cowpeas or soybeans) for hay or seed, followed by winter legumes; and corn interplanted with cowpeas, soybeans, or velvetbeans.
2. Four-year rotation for areas where half of the cropland is planted to cotton: cotton, followed in part by a winter legume; cotton; summer legumes for hay or seed followed by winter legumes; corn interplanted with summer legumes.
Hay-Pasture Region: Hay and pastures predominate in the northeastern states. A three-year rotation of corn for silage, oats, and hay is popular on dairy farms of the Great Lakes states where considerable land is available for pasture. Potatoes are sometimes substituted for corn as an intertilled crop. Grass-legume mixtures may be sown with spring small grains and kept two years for hay. A large percentage of the cropland is devoted to hay on many New England farms.
Irrigated Regions: In Utah, a crop rotation that included alfalfa and cultivated crops with rather heavy applications of manure effectively maintained high yields of wheat, potatoes, sugarbeets, field peas, oats, and alfalfa. A satisfactory irrigated rotation for western Nebraska is alfalfa (three years), potatoes, sugarbeets (manured), sugarbeets, and oats.
Well , that's some explanation about Rotation In Practice, Hopefully can be useful. . .
HAPPY LEARNING. . .
SOURCE:
Book Principles of Field Crop Production | John H. Martin - Warren H. Leonard | COLLIER Macmillan (1967)
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