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Crop Rotation Manuals and Spreadsheets Coming soon from NRAES: Crop Rotation on Organic Farms: A Planning Manual by Charles L. Mohler and Sue Ellen Johnson Supplements to Crop Rotation on Organic Farms: A Planning Manual Crop Rotation Planning Procedure [400K .pdf file] - Modified version of Chapter 5 with instructions for using the following spreadsheets instead of paper planning process. Crop char0 [.xls file] Field char0 [.xls file] Summer acres Field char1 [.xls file] Linking a Field Map and Spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel [75K .pdf file] Example field map [.xls file] Guide to the Expert Farmers’ DACUM Chart for Manage Crop Rotation System [527K .pdf file] In January 2002, the New England Small Farm Institute convened a panel of twelve experienced organic vegetable farmers to discuss crop rotation. The goal was to give the NorthEast Organic Network (NEON) a better understanding of how successful farmers really manage crop rotations, as background for the development of a crop rotation planning manual. Using a structured, facilitated process called DACUM, the panel developed a chart detailing the actions and decisions related to rotations on their farms. This booklet presents and summarizes the chart (pages 13-24). It also contains a description of the background of the project and findings, farmers’ comments about the process (pages 4-6), and sample five-year rotations for real fields on each of the panelists’ farms (pages 7-12). A summary of comments from additional farmers based on a verification process can be found on page 26. Brief biographies of the expert panelists and descriptions of their operations is on page 27.