Diverse landcover boosts yields for major U.S. crops, study finds

Monoculture—or specializing in a single crop, covering larger fields that can be harvested with bigger machines on a simplified landscape—is widely assumed to boost a farm's production capacity. A major study encompassing the mainland United States, however, suggests that the opposite is true. Nature Food published the research.

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