Peaola: Pea Canola Intercropping

Crop Pea
Start Date2015
End Date2016
Principal InvestigatorVanKoughnet, Brent, Agri Skills Inc.
MPSG Financial Support$26,250
Total Project Funding$26,250
Report2015 On-Farm Evaluation of Peaola | 2016 On-Farm Evaluation of Peaola

Research Objectives

To assess the practical, agronomic and economic implications of intercropping peas and canola (peaola) in a field-scale replicated trial.

Project Description

When peas and canola are grown together in the same field at the same time as an intercrop, it often over yields – the yield produced by the intercrop is greater than the yield produced by the monocrop grown on the same total land area. This trial investigates the agronomic and economic implications of intercropping peas and canola with three different nitrogen fertilizer rates compared to monocropping peas or canola.