Crop Diversity Benefits: Why Variety is Key to Sustainable Farming

Crop Diversity Benefits: Why Variety is Key to Sustainable Farming

Farms come in all shapes and sizes, from a thousand-acre field planted in corn to a quarter-acre parcel supporting thirty different types of vegetables. One of the key differences between these two examples is the amount of crop diversity present. Increasing the types of crops present in an area can provide numerous ecological and economic benefits. Since the exact type of diversity affects the impacts, it’s difficult to generalize which benefit…