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 ...

He investigated the benefits of intercropping wheat with beans, reporting a staggering 75% decrease in weed biomass. Levels of wild oats and thistles in fields on Mr Hares’ 130ha farm near Swindon had ...

The Diverfarming project evaluates the impact of intercropping and agricultural management on the dynamics of soil organic carbon in four climate regions in Spain, Italy, and Finland With the aim of ...

Monocropping—or growing acres and acres of one plant species—is a common agricultural practice, particularly in the US. But it can lead to increased need for fertilizers and a lack of biodiversity ...

On an early August morning, Justin Knopf points out a patch of pigweed growing above his canopy of grain sorghum. It’s the scourge of any crop field—growing in resistance to even some of the most ...

Juggling two crops in the same field isn’t for the faint of heart, particularly when one is as enduring and expensive to establish as hazelnuts. Yet farmers planting hazelnuts have a powerful ...

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 ...

Every crop in Godfrey Kizito’s garden has a role to play. Trees protect his coffee from direct sunlight, and the leaves that are shed off these trees fix nutrients in the soil. The trees also protect ...