The Mechanisms of Intercropping: How Mixing Crops Can Cut Inputs & Boost Yields with Warren McAuley

There are many claims for the benefits of cover cropping, including the ability to reduce fertilizer, herbicide, insecticide, and fungicide applications and an increased cropping yield. But what is it about intercropping that allows these benefits to occur? In this webinar, Warren McAuley from Nature United talks about plant growth characteristics, how insects look for plants to eat, how diseases are spread between plants, and more to better understand why intercropping different plants can be useful in reducing inputs and increasing crop yield. Funding for this project has been provided by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada through the Agricultural Climate Solutions – Living Labs program.