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CHAPTER 4 | Crop SEQUENCES from EXPERT farmers Fields4747 Most experienced organic farmers have a good grasp of the biological principles of crop rotation (see sidebar ). Considering an organic farm field with a healthy, high-yielding crop, the natural question is, what cropping history (or crop rotation) contributed to its vigor and productivity?Chapter 2 (pages 3 20) reviewed the multiple inter-acting factors that experts balance as they manage crop rotations. This chapter presents crop SEQUENCES for ac-tual FIELDS , as implemented by EXPERT organic farmers on their own farms. Twelve EXPERT farmers each recounted the four- or five-year cropping history of one real field on their own farms at a 2002 workshop (see chapter 2, pages 3 20).
48 Crop Rotation on Organic Farms: A Planning Manual Sidebar 4.2 Expert Farmer Profiles These profiles reflect the status of the farms and farmers in 2002, when the information on …
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