Intercrop Research - Organic Production

• Intercrops for Soil Health and Fertility
• Effects of Intercropping on Crop Yield and Quality
• Managing Intercrops
• Intercrops for Pest Control

 

 

 

Intercrops for Soil Health and Fertility

• Biological nitrogen fixation in mixed legume-cereal cropping systems
• Biological nitrogen fixation in mixed legume/grass pastures
• Dinitrogen fixation and transfer in legume-crested wheatgrass mixtures on semiarid rangelands
• Preliminary trials using a white clover understorey to supply the nitrogen requirements of a cereal
• Suitability of legume cover crop-winter wheat intercrops on the semi-arid Canadian Prairies

 

Effects of Intercropping on Crop Yield and Quality

• NEW!! Effects of woodchip mulch and barley intercropping on weeds in lentil crops
• NEW!! Grain yield and quality characteristics of different genotypes of winter pea in comparison to spring pea for organic farming in pure and mixed stands
• Comparing spring wheat cultivar mixtures under conventional and organic management in Alberta
• The competitive ability of pea–barley intercrops against weeds and the interactions with crop productivity and soil N availability
• Crop yield, root growth, and nutrient dynamics in a conventional and three organic cropping systems with different levels of external inputs and N re-cycling through fertility building crops
• Dynamic analysis of competition and complementarity for light and N use to understand the yield and the protein content of a durum wheat–winter pea intercrop
• Effect of Intercropping and Cultivar Mixtures on Organic Wheat Production
• The efficiency of a durum wheat-winter pea intercrop to improve yield and wheat grain protein concentration depends on N availability during early growth
• Evaluating Field Pea and Cereal Mixtures For High Protein Organic Feed Production
• Intercropping spring wheat with cereal grains, legumes and oilseeds fails to improve productivity under organic management
• Interseeding forage brassicas into sweet corn: forage productivity and effect on sweet corn yield
• Performance and Feed Quality of Oat, Barley and Pea Varieties when Grown Organically in Monocrop or in Mixtures
• Producing organic wheat with high grain protein content: the significance of intercropping and the need for diagnostic tools

 

Managing Intercrops

• Cultivar Mixtures, Cover Crops, and Intercropping with Organic Spring Wheat
• Intercropping - The Practical Application of Diversity, Competition and Facilitation in Arable and Organic Cropping Systems
• Managing white clover living mulch for sweet corn production with partial rototilling
• Mechanical control of clover improves nitrogen supply and growth of wheat in winter wheat/white clover intercropping
• Organic and conventional management of mixtures of wheat and spring cereals
• The Potential Value of Different Nurse Crops for Organic Systems and their Influence on the Undersown Swards

 

Intercrops for Pest Control

• NEW!! Effect of interseeding cover crops and fertilization on weed suppression under an organic and rotational cropping system: 1. Stability of weed suppression over years and main crops of potato, maize and soybean
• Can Annual Intercrops Help Control Weeds and Improve Productivity?
• Weed, disease and grain yield effects of cultivar mixtures in organically managed spring wheat