succession of crops

American  

noun

1. the continuous cultivation of a crop throughout a season by successive plantings or by the use of varieties with different rates of growth.

2. the successive cultivation of short-lived crops.

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Etymology

Origin of succession of crops

First recorded in 1770–80

Example Sentences

The average soil is very similar to that of our Mississippi valley, yielding a satisfactory succession of crops without the aid of any artificial enrichment.

From Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Ballou, Maturin Murray

There was a very poor show of chaff-cutters and root-pulpers, because our farming friends here have not yet required these indispensable aids to mixed farming and succession of crops.

From Two Years in Oregon by Nash, Wallis

Plant at intervals to get a succession of crops.

From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.

None of these people have an idea respecting a succession of crops in scientific rotation, therefore a loss is sustained by the impoverishment of the ground, which must occasionally lie inactive to recover its fertility.

From Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

Not half the sheep are kept in this valley that ought to be, and that will be, when change or succession of crops are universally practiced.

From Two Years in Oregon by Nash, Wallis