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 ...

Iowa Learning Farms will host a relay intercropping field day on June 1 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Jason Russell’s farm near Monticello. The free event is open to farmers and landowners and ...

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, ...

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Planting soybeans into standing wheat can not only result in higher soybean yields, but offer a significant financial boost to growers compared to planting a traditional double crop of soybeans, ...