There is rarely crop rotation and soils are depleted after years of grain crops.

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Organic methods, which rely on crop rotation, manure and compost in place of fertiliser, are far less intensive.

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The other is that monoculture and less crop rotation risks exhausting the soil.

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Shallow plowing, no crop rotation, inadequate seedbeds, and other habits sustained by lore and tradition resulted in poor production and soil exhaustion.

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The weather impact was exacerbated by decades of extensive farming without crop rotation, cover crops and other techniques to prevent wind erosion.

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But one of the issue if you have with that is for disease and pests, if you want to have crop rotation which when you only have one place to grow something it's kind of like, am I going to take three years off growing tomatoes.

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