Pioneering four-course rotation gets a 21st century makeover

摘要

A rise in yields quickly followed a move to wider rotations on the estate where the Norfolk four-course rotation was born. In the second part of our series on sustainable farming systems, David Jones finds out how this was achieved. Rotations have returned with a bang to a large north Norfolk estate, surprising everyone with a sharp lift in yields across land where the concept of rotating crops was born two centuries ago.