Sarah Mock
1 min readJan 10, 2017

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I think you might be confusing terms here. “Monoculture” farming doesn’t mean that a farmer doesn’t rotate their crops, it means that, within a field, they only plant one crop in one year. So though 90%+ of US farm production is “monoculture”, a significantly smaller percentage of farmers don’t rotate their crops. Corn-soybean rotations are the norm in US ag production, which actually pair well in terms of soil nutrients (soybeans and other legumes fix nitrogen in the soil, while corn consumes).

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Sarah Mock
Sarah Mock

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Author of Farm (and Other F Words), buy now: https://tinyurl.com/4sp2a5tb. Rural issues and agriculture writer/researcher. Not a cheerleader, not the enemy.

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