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Field Peas in Crop Rotations

    excellent break for cereal disease cycles

    reduce nitrogen fertility cost of rotation

    typically no added N the year of pea production

    suggestion, 1.25 pound N per bushel of peas for subsequent crop

    improved soil physical properties

    stimulation of soil biological activity

    subsequent yield response

    nitrogen credits and "rotational effects"

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