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Crop rotation is a sustainable agricultural practice of cultivating different crops in succession on the same piece of land. This method can help to improve soil health, increase its nutrient content, and control pests and weeds. For example, after maize, farmers can plant legumes in the same field as it can restore the soil’s nitrogen consumed by the previous crop. What is the purpose of crop rotation? Growing the same crop repeatedly depletes the soil of nutrients. The ancient method of…

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WE MAY DRIVE red equipment, but green is our favorite color by far. A perfectly plowed field has nothing on the brilliant green mat dotted with hairy vetch flowers that dominates our tractor cab view when my cousin, Tim Imhoff, and I seed our crops.

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For hundreds of thousands of years, humans lived a nomadic life, hunting for game and foraging for food. 

Then, several thousand years ago, they stopped. They began domesticating animals, started growing crops, and lived a sedentary lifestyle. 

The question anthropologists have asked is, why? 

Learn more about the rise of agriculture, aka the Neolithic Revolution, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

For hundreds of thousands of years, humans lived a nomadic life, hunting for game and foraging for food. Then, several thousand years ago, they stopped. They began domesticating animals, started growing crops, and lived a sedentary lifestyle. The question anthropologists have asked is, why? Learn more about the rise of agriculture, aka the Neolithic Revolution, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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