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🔄 To turn around 🔁 To take turns 🌱 To change plants
to rotate

to rotate

4 3.2
To grow different crops on the same land in turn
  • verb
  • /roʊˈteɪt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : rotar cultivos
  • Planting and cultivation are rotated and staggered to sustain production and provide multiple harvests over many months.
  • rotating crops
  • fields rotated

And an agricultural system that is mostly crop dusted and or genetically modified and rotates only between corn, soy and sugar beets.

Examples

  • With this new synthetic fertilizer, farmers could plant dense fields of corn year after year without the need to rotate their crops and restore nitrogen to the soil.

  • Alternative production systems, notably rotating crops and practicing integrated pest and crop management, can significantly reduce the need for them.

    Academic text (1998)

  • It's God's blanket to do this is rotate your crops.

  • "You need to rotate them with crops that have glomalin-producing fungi."

    Academic text (2002)

  • In particular, rotating other crops with rice would help maintain the condition of irrigated soils.

    Academic text (1996)

  • While grazing management—such as rotating throughout surrounding pastures—can provide relief, problem areas must first be identified.

    Academic text (2006)

  • To improve soil quality, farmers should rotate their crops every season.

  • By rotating their crops, they can reduce the risk of pests affecting their harvest.

  • Many experts recommend that gardeners rotate vegetables to maintain healthy soil.

Surface Forms

rotate infinitive
rotated past
rotated past participle
rotating present participle
rotates third person singular

Morphology

rotate = rot (transparent) = rot + ate

The agricultural sense (plant in succession) is a domain-specific extension of 'turn' (i.e., cycles of crops) but still derives from the same root + '-ate' formation.

Etymology

Rotate comes from the Latin root rota 'wheel', and farmers picture their fields moving like a wheel through different crops. So, to rotate crops is to plant different crops in order each season to keep the soil healthy.