How to Use crop rotation in a Sentence

crop rotation

noun

• Farmers are changing the way they farm, adding something called cover crops and changing up crop rotations.
  — Emily Hopkins, Cincinnati.com, 4 July 2018
• In the United States—which, notably, is the second largest carbon emitter in the world—24% of farmers use diverse crop rotations already.
  — David Perry, Quartz, 25 Oct. 2019
• Actress and director] Amy Morton refers to it as crop rotation.
  — Josh Rottenberg, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• For centuries, growers relied on manure and crop rotation to keep soil fertile.
  — Tracy Staedter, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2019
• The capital investments required to quickly switch to a new crop rotation can be enormous.
  — Emma Marris, The Atlantic, 5 June 2021
• Dobson’s team grows hemp as part of a dynamic crop rotation alongside grains that supply flour to local bakeries, livestock feed for dairy farms, and rye and hops for brewers and distillers.
  — Maria Geyman, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2020
• Grower Scott Park lays on 12 tons of organic mulch per acre of land and uses crop rotations of rice, beans, barley and wheat to nourish the soil and thereby produce more flavorful tomatoes.
  — Gabriella Gershenson, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2017
• If conversations around farming, soil health, and crop rotation sound a little, well, earthy, the end product is undeniably luxe.
  — Emily Farra, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2021
• Carver’s research led to the idea of crop rotation, which helps the restore nitrogen in soil after harvesting any singular crop, such as cotton.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2022
• The February date was chosen to honor George Washington Carver, famous for his devotion to the peanut, as well as a method of crop rotation that helps sustain soil fertility.
  — cleveland, 28 Jan. 2022
• Banning lawmakers, their top staffers, and their spouses from buying and selling individual stocks should be as non-controversial as crop rotation or pulling to the side of the street when an ambulance goes by.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 17 Dec. 2021
• When crop rotation, pesticides and legacy breeding techniques failed to halt its spread, scientists used genetic engineering to give the papaya a vaccine against the virus.
  — Hank Campbell, WSJ, 19 June 2019
• The second spurred population growth through crop rotation, improvement of the plow, a suite of policy changes including the division of the commons into parcels of private property.
  — Jeff McMahon, Forbes, 30 June 2022
• Going deeper has also meant mastering the complexities of soil and weed management, crop rotation, fertilization, the milling of rice, and bringing it to market.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Jan. 2024
• It’s having crop rotation and choosing a variety of crops, having sufficient soil fertility…all of those things interacting will make things less of a problem.
  — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 29 Apr. 2022
• Not prioritising crop rotation, won’t help achieve the target of halving pesticide use by 2030, one of the concrete objectives of the European Commission's Farm-to-fork strategy.
  — Daniela De Lorenzo, Forbes, 26 June 2021
• Organic farming emphasizes the importance of healthy soil, achieved through crop rotation and composting.
  — Pete Scherer, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2023
• Russell makes the case that more farmers need to embrace practices like extended crop rotation, conservation tillage, which means farmers would rarely or never till soil, and keeping the soil covered with winter and perennial crops.
  — Adam Brewster, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2019
• Organic oats typically rely on crop rotation, mulching and other low-tillage practices to reduce weeds and pest pressure, and are not sprayed with probable carcinogens.
  — Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• Since the photos are from too distant a position to identify the tomatoes’ specific issue(s), here is a general answer on the crop rotation problem that involves only planning, and no bed-moving nor fallow ground.
  — oregonlive, 12 June 2021
• Since weevils multiply quickly and are hard to eliminate, use certified disease-resistant slips and practice a 4-year crop rotation.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 15 Mar. 2017
• In vegetable gardens and annual flower beds which are replanted from season to season, crop rotation is important.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 24 May 2018
• Spreadsheets help Kesterson track planting and harvesting timelines, product demand, and crop rotation.
  — Eric Velasco, al, 13 Aug. 2019
• Rather than assuming effective new herbicides will be developed, Frisvold and Davis argued for taking a longer view of weed control that includes multiple approaches at once—like crop rotation and curbing the spread of weed seeds.
  — Brooke Borel, Scientific American, 18 June 2018
• Without organic dairy farms and their need for organic feed, Charlie Dykstra said local organic crop farmers would lose a nutrient-rich crop rotation.
  — Julia-Grace Sanders, The Seattle Times, 8 Apr. 2018
• There is also a burgeoning interest in sustainable practices such as no-till farming, crop rotation, agrivoltaics, and other sustainability policy that is likely to be at the center of the next Farm Bill.
  — Bob Inglis, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Hutch and Norma Naranjo attribute their successful harvest – especially corn, integral to Tewa diet and culture – to prayer, crop rotation, and native seeds that better withstand drought.
  — Tammy Webber and Martha Irvine, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2022
• Regenerative agriculture dates back at least to biblical times, when the ancients practiced rudimentary crop rotation by letting their fields lie fallow in order to keep the soil rich with nutrients.
  — Sheila Marikar, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2020
• Popular thinking was that crop rotation dealt with salinity, but researchers found that salts keep accumulating even after planting wheat, Sudan grass or cotton.
  — The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2024
• Experts recommend establishing a 3-year crop rotation for tomatoes and their close relatives—peppers, potatoes, and eggplants.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024