crop-rotate

verb

To practice crop rotation in growing (a particular crop)

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Meanings

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

present singular third person crop-rotates · participle present crop-rotating · participle past crop-rotated · past crop-rotated

  1. agricultureTo practice crop rotation in growing (a particular crop)

    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.

    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
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    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.

    2009 December 3, "Gerard", “Can't Beet Sugar Cane”, in The Scope, number 95, page 3
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