A lot of the record high corn yield growers grow corn on corn. The old corn plants take 2 years to break down; but they are very good at building soil and returning nutrients back to the ground over time.
Soybean stubble has a small amount of stored nitrogen, but the stubble tends to decay fast and return far less meaningful nutrients to the soil over the long term.
Crop rotation isn’t as simple as it would appear.
Corn on corn can actually build soil organic matter over time.
50-50 rotation kinda keeps things even. The advantage can be less dis age or insects; but that isn’t always true.
Growing beans on beans often robs soil of organic matter and soil health. Tho in some soils and climates it works well too.
It’s a huge topic no one can explain the details and how they apply in a forum message, but at least, we farmers want to survive and thrive and have a better year next year - we are applying these ideas to our farms to improve the farms.
We are not stupid hicks and we are not looking for ways to wreck our most valuable asset, the land, as some of these type of books try to imply.
Efficiency and sustainability - that is what any successful farmer is trying for. We are not 40 years behind the times as these book types imply.
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