crop-rotate

English

Verb

crop-rotate (third-person singular simple present crop-rotates, present participle crop-rotating, simple past and past participle crop-rotated)

  1. (agriculture) To practice crop rotation in growing (a particular crop)
    • 2009 December 3, "Gerard", “Can't Beet Sugar Cane”, in The Scope, number 95, page 3:
      Sugar beet needs a lot of (petrochemical) weed killers, has to be crop-rotated (so the processors are four times as far apart, which means longer shipping routes), and the processors and evaporators are energy hogs.
    • 2012 November 27, Michael R. Edelstein, Astrid Cerny, Abror Gadaev, Disaster by Design: The Aral Sea and Its Lessons for Sustainability, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN, page 167:
      Currently, cotton is crop rotated with winter wheat in Uzbekistan after cotton is harvested. This is an advantage in diversification for soil health and food security.
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