Extension Farming the Farm Crop Farming Matchup Return to Resource Guide Main Page Return to Texas Farm Bureau Home Page From Seed to Harvest Farmers must make many decisions before planting a crop on their farm. The most important decision is the crop to be planted.
Farmers generally rotate their crops.
This means they plant one type of crop one year and a different type the next. In other words they don't plant the same type of plants two years in a row. A rotation helps control diseases and insects by not providing a host crop for more than one year. Rotations might be 3 or more years. The quality of the seed is the next consideration.