Highlighting how growing wheat keeps the soil healthy

YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - Wheat is a rotation crop that is grown locally to break up the cycle between growing the same crop every season.

It allows for different fertizilers to be introduced to keep soil health high.

But aside from selling the product, Anthony Gallardo, a research technician at the local U of A Cooperative Extension, shares why this crop is so beneficial.

"I mean the number one thing is soil health, we won't be able to grow our winter produce if our soil isn’t healthy so that rotation crop allows us to have that ability to keep our soil healthy," Gallardo says.

Planting begins in January and the wheat is harvested in June.