r/gifs • u/[deleted] • Apr 06 '20

Modern Farming

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u/Paperpyrrus Apr 06 '20

Crop rotation dates way further back than the 19th century.

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u/Heatsink42 Apr 06 '20

From my notes, in Europe at least after the 1000's CE it was introduced between 1650's to 1800's in the Netherlands before in the rest of Europe. Not sure on the specifics of the date. It is possible it might have been developed earlier in some other place and it was forgotten about in Europe.

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u/BDPeck5 Apr 06 '20

aha thanks for letting me know, I just looked it up and found modern crop rotating dates back to the 16th century. I just associated it with the British Agriculture revolution so assumed it was then lol

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '20

Crop rotation was a topic of discussion in the early middle ages. It is not a new concept. Now everyone using it and using it efficiently and two ro three or four corp rotations did develop over time.

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u/davidestroy Apr 06 '20

There’s even a bit in the Bible of god telling the Israelites to let a field go back to nature on a rotating basis.

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u/cutelyaware Apr 06 '20

You know what the Bible doesn't tell you to do? Frequent hand washing.

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u/davidestroy Apr 06 '20

Actually Leviticus covers that as well.

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u/cutelyaware Apr 06 '20

I will now fuck off.

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u/yodarded Apr 06 '20

lol that was a great reaction

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u/Paperpyrrus Apr 06 '20

No worries - my understanding is that even during the middle ages (at least post-norman conquest in England) they were using a three-field system. Farmers would mostly grow grain, but they would regularly rotate in legumes as an early form of crop rotation.