Anastasios Lithourgidis

TL;DR: Intercropping, the agricultural practice of cultivating two or more crops in the same space at the same time, is an old and commonly used cropping practice which aims to match efficiently crop demands to the available growth resources and labor as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: A 2-year field study was conducted using common vetch (Vicia sativa L.), wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), triticale (xTriticosecale Wittmack), barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), and oat (Avena sativa l.) pure stands as well as two commonvetch-cereal mixtures for silage with each of the above four cereals in two seeding ratios (i.e., vetch:cereal 55:45 and 65:35, based on seed

TL;DR: Results showed that mixture of common vetch with oat at the 65:35 seeding ratio achieved a higher forage yield and protein content than the other mixtures studied.

TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of intercrops of pea (Pisum arvense L.), a popular legume used in intercropping systems with winter cereals for forage and silage production, with wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), rye (Secale cereale L.), and triticale (×-Triticosecale Wittmack) in two seeding ratios (60:40 and 80:20) were compared with monocrops of Pea and cereals, for two growing seasons.

TL;DR: The results of this study suggest that some winter cereals such as barley cultivar Athinaida could be used as cover crop for annual grass weed suppression in corn and consequently to minimize herbicide applications.