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ELI5: If farmers have to rotate crops every other year to reduce nutrient drain in soil, why can trees and other plants live for so long without doing the same?

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gpt
Farm crops are much faster growing than trees and other plants, therefore they use the nutrients in the soil a lot faster. Most trees that shed their leaves which is where most nutrients are. These decay and put nutrients back into the soil, crops that get harvested don't do this.

Also trees that live for a long time have deeper and longer roots than crops with grow for under a year, which means if they exhaust the nutrients from one place, there can still get some elsewhere.