Intercrop Project• Location: student farm• Participants: IAD students, Mark VanHorn,
Chris Van Kessel • Crops: wheat and vetch• Hypothesis: Vetch would fix nitrogen resulting
in a higher wheat yield- Intercrop would result in a positive relationship between these two crops.
• What does this all mean? • Interested more in the research process rather
than the results
The very beginning- Working out the experimental
design with Mark (Sept 02)
Early October/late Sept??
October 2002
December 2003
January 2003
Percent cover January
Late January
Late January
Early February 2003