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Practical Resources
- Biodiversity in organic production helps yields, pest management and economics with Dr. Kathleen Delate
- Prairie Organics: Think Whole Farm Recorded Presentations. 2016
- Crop Performance in Farming Systems Trial: 35 Years of the Rodale Farming Systems Trial
- Rodale Institute. 2016
- Crop Rotation and Wheat Nutrient Content: Glenlea
- Natural Systems Agriculture. 2009
- Natural Systems Agriculture. 2009
- Crop Rotation on Organic Farms: A Planning Manual
- Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education. 2009
- Crop Rotations on Organic Farms
- Center for Environmental Farming Systems. 2006
- Market Farming with Rotations and Cover Crops: An Organic Bio-Extensive System
- The Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture. 2015
- Organic Risk Management: Crop Rotation [PDF - 940 kB]
- University of Minnesota. 2010
- Perennial Forage Crop Rotation Comparisons in Organic Cropping Systems
- OCIA Research & Education. 2010
- Planning Crop Rotations: The Diversity is What Makes You Sustainable
- Pivot and Grow Video Series by the Prairie Organic Grain Initiative. 2016
- Rotations: Designing a System that Works for You [PDF – 577 kB]
- Prairie Organic Grain Initiative. 2016
Scientific Results
- Barley yield and nutrient uptake in rotation after perennial forages in the semiarid prairie region of Saskatchewan
- Canadian Journal of Plant Science (2013) 93: 809-816
- Crop rotational diversity enhances belowground communities and functions in an agroecosystem
- Ecology Letters (2015) 18: 761-771
- Crop rotation and crop management effects on cereal yields in arable organic farming in Denmark
- Organic Eprints. 2011
- Crop sequence, crop protection and fertility management effects on weed cover in an organic/conventional farm management trial
- European Journal of Agronomy (2011) 34: 153-162
- Crop yield, root growth, and nutrient dynamics in a conventional and three organic cropping systems with different levels of external inputs and N re-cycling through fertility building crops
- European Journal of Agronomy (2012) 37: 66-82
- Diversification practices reduce organic to conventional yield gap
- Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences (2015) 282: 1799
- The Effect of Rotation and In-Crop Weed Management on the Germinable Weed Seedbank after 10 Years
- Weed Science (2011) 59: 553-561
- Effects of input management and crop diversity on non-renewable energy use efficiency of cropping systems in the Canadian Prairie
- European Journal of Agronomy (2011) 34: 113-123
- Effects of organic farming on weed flora composition in a long term perspective
- European Journal of Agronomy (2008) 28: 570-578
- Effects of Three Pulse Crops on Subsequent Barley, Canola, and Wheat
- Agronomy Journal (2014) 106: 343-350
- Enhancing Yields in Organic Crop Production by Eco-Functional Intensification
- Sustainable Agriculture Research (2015) 4: 42-50
- Factors influencing crop rotation strategies on organic farms with different time periods since conversion to organic production
- Biological Agriculture & Horticulture (2017) 33: 14-27
- Frequency of field pea in rotations impacts biological nitrogen fixation
- Canadian Journal of Plant Science (2012) 92: 1005-1011
- Impact of preceding crop on alfalfa competitiveness with weeds
- Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2017) 32: 28-32
- Impact of tillage and rotation on yield and economic performance in corn-based cropping systems
- Agronomy Journal (2006) 98: 1204-1212
- Increased weed diversity, density and above-ground biomass in long-term organic crop rotations
- Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2010) 25: 281-295
- The influence of crop rotation on the mineral nutrient content of organic vs. conventionally produced wheat grain: Preliminary results from a long-term field study
- Canadian Journal of Plant Science (2009) 89: 915-919
- Influence of ley duration on the yield and quality of the subsequent cereal crop (spring oats) in an organically managed long-term crop rotation experiment
- Organic Agriculture (2011) 1: 147-159
- Organic Agriculture (2011) 1: 147-159
- Influence of Organic Management with Different Crop Rotations on Selected Productivity Parameters in a Long-Term Canadian Field Study
- Organic Eprints. 2005
- Integrated Biological and Cultural Practices Can Reduce Crop Rotation Period of Organic Strawberries
- Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (2014) 38: 603-631
- Integrating a complex rotation with no-till improves weed management in organic farming. A review
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development (2015) 35: 967-974
- Long-term Organic Crop Rotation Experiments for Cereal Production - Yield Development and Dynamics
- Organic Eprints. 2005
- Nitrogen dynamics in stockless organic clover–grass and cereal rotations
- Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems (2012) 92: 363-378
- Nitrogen management in organic farming: comparison of crop rotation residual effects on yields, N leaching and soil conditions
- Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems (2010) 87: 21-31
- Nitrous oxide emissions from organic and conventional crop rotations in five European countries
- Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment (2006) 112: 200-206
- Optimal weed management in crop rotations: incorporating economics is crucial
- Weed Research (2010) 50: 413-424
- Quality of soil organic matter and C storage as influenced by cropping systems in northwestern Alberta, Canada
- Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems (2011) 89: 71-79
- The role of crop rotations in determining soil structure and crop growth conditions
- Canadian Journal of Soil Science (2005) 85: 557-577
- Rotational benefits of forage crops in Canadian prairie cropping systems
- Journal of Production Agriculture (1995) 8: 521-529
- A rotation design to reduce weed density in organic farming
- Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2010) 25: 189-195
- Seasonal patterns in post-dispersal seed predation of Abutilon theophrasti and Setaria faberi in three cropping systems
- Journal of Applied Ecology (2006) 43: 999-1010
- Separating the impacts of crop diversification and rotations on risk
- Agronomy Journal (2001) 93: 1337-1340
- Supporting Agricultural Ecosystem Services through the Integration of Perennial Polycultures into Crop Rotations
- Sustainability (2017) 9:2267
- Weed Seedbank Dynamics in Three Organic Farming Crop Rotations
- Agronomy Journal (2004) 96:1429-1435
- Whole-rotation dry matter and nitrogen and grain yields from the first course of an organic farming crop rotation experiment
- Journal of Agricultural Science (2002) 139: 361-370