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A professor of agriculture at Kansas State, Fred is a trans man who understands the dangers of isolation and is never too busy to ask “How are you feeling?” or offer nonjudgmental advice on everything from crop rotation to matters of the heart.

This forces growers to maintain fertility more naturally with crop rotation and other practices, which at least helps to ensure that the land isn’t in a constant monoculture year after year.

Earlier this month, the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, proposed weakening or cutting rules in areas like crop rotation, soil cover protection and tillage methods.

However, one often-overlooked way to ensure long-term success is raspberry crop rotation.

While crop rotation and other farming and gardening practices long have reflected benefits of a mix of plants, the new research puts hard data to one important mechanism underpinning the observation: the numbers of microorganisms in the soil that eat plants.