Intercrop Project
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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
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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. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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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