Stephen Tempest writes:
> "BEThexton" <bethexton_at_...> writes:
>
> >I'm not an expert, but I believe that crop rotation of some
> >degree was practiced by many ancient agriculturists.
>
> My understanding is that early crop rotation involved leaving
> the fields fallow for a year or two. That was certainly the
> classic mediaeval English pattern - three fields: wheat or
> barley in one, peas or beans in another, nothing in the third,
> and rotate the crops around by one each year.
I undestood that some oriental agricultures had fallen across
rotations that did not involve fallowing, but I could easily be
wrong there. Given their use of soybean, it wouldn't surprise me
at all if they'd had a non-fallow rotation involving wheat,
barley, and soybeans. (Soybeans are legumes, aren't they?)
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Viktor