Extreme rainfall and flooding are becoming more common across much of the U.S. In Iowa, some farmers are experimenting with something called relay intercropping to keep more rainfall in the fields.

If you're starting a vegetable garden, you may want to try the age-old method of intercropping. Here's how and why this approach to growing crops is impactful.

The main goal of intercropping is to achieve the highest possible yield on a particular piece of land by using the available ...

Across much of the Midwest, the atmosphere is becoming warmer and retaining more water, leading to heavier downpours. A two-crop system called relay intercropping could help farmers buffer weather ...

Intercropping Gains More Interest from US Farmers Farmers Nathan Neameyer and Paul Overby, along with researcher Mike Ostlie, are intercropping innovators intent on finding crop combinations that ...

The benefits of shelterbelts to forages and cash crops have been known for decades, and as a result, have been a common ...

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 ...

Intercropping, despite its challenges, can lead to improved crop yields, disrupted pest and disease spread, enhanced soil biodiversity, erosion control. Courtesy Johnson County Extension With cool ...

Intercropping – the practice of planting mixtures of crops – can be an effective pest management tool worldwide, a new study shows.

Intercropping, the simultaneous cultivation of multiple crops, is beneficial for maximizing resource use but poses challenges due to the shading of lower crops by higher ones.

Intercropping, whereby more than one crop is cultivated in a field at the same time, has proved beneficial in Africa and Asia. Now researchers are investigating its potential to improve sustainable ...