Keeping detailed records of planned and grown crops, planting times, and crop performance in each planting space will assist in making crop rotation adjustments.

Broome County: Cover crop emerging in a row-crop providing temporary vegetative cover that enhances soil structure, reduces erosion, and improves water and nutrient retention during the …

What is a cover crop? A cover crop is a grass, legume, or forb planted to control erosion, improve soil health, or serve another purpose related to conservation.1 The most common cover crop …

System Definitions The term cropping system refers to the crops and crop sequences and the management techniques used on a par-ticular field over. a period of years. This term is not a …

Reduce N Losses Nitrate mineralized from crop residues and soil OM Is highly soluble through the winter. Nitrogen leaching can be significant even without fall N applications.

Crop management is the set of agricultural practices performed to improve the growth, development and yield of crops. It begins with a seedbed preparation, sowing of seeds and …

Released August 12, 2025, by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).