Discover how oil palm intercropping boosts farm income and sustainability for Indian farmers amid rising agricultural ...

Ross Evelsizer (left), natural resource projects director with Northeast Iowa Resource Conservation and Development, and Mike Bretz (right), a regenerative farmer in Buchanan County, Iowa, stand in a ...

Intercropping creates a living web of soil-building and nutrient-exchange underground. When legumes fix nitrogen, root systems complement each other, and canopies reduce erosion and evapotranspiration ...

Two crops are better than one. The logic is simple; the practice is not. Intercropping continues to gain attention of U.S. producers hopeful of growing two cash crops simultaneously on the same ground ...

Many claims of benefits from companion planting (growing two crops together) are no more than wishful thinking. Tangible benefits, however, come from intercropping (also known as relay planting, ...

I wrote about Intercropping – Companion planting that really works! in April and Intercropping Vegetables in Late Spring and Early Summer, aka Relay Planting in June. Now we have reached summer, many ...

Plant diversity in intercropping leads to more diversity below ground too. Researchers are working to find the right combination for optimal crop and soil performance. Plant scientist Ann Bybee-Finley ...