What is the name of the type of farming where types of crops and fields used is alternated to ensure soil?

Question

fertility? like, planting corn in one area and soybeans the next? or moving the corn crops to a new field and letting the barren field rejuvenate

Answer 1

Crop rotation.  Leaving the field "empty" for the season: fallow.

Answer 2

It's called crop rotation.  Crops like cotton and  corn use a lot of nutrients like Nitrogen.  Rotating with legume crops such as soybeans will build back the soil.  Also weed control is

improved  when you are rotating a grass crop such as corn with a broad leaf crop like soybeans. Crop rotation is a technique used by farmers for many years.  Leaving the fields barren, or fallow as it is called, is used mostly when it is necessary to conserve moisture.  Use if irrigation has replaced a lot of fallowing of fields.

Answer 3

crop rotation

Answer 4

It is crop rotation, this was fisrt dis covered by George Washinton Carver. Certain crops would deplete the soil of certain nutriants, and so he figured out the if you switch these crops every 2 years or so the soil would retain the needed  nutriants.

Answer 5

Crop rotation, I think, is the closest to what you're referring.

Answer 6

its called crop rotation

Answer 7

Crop ratation is best answer but fallow is correct too.