Organic producers taking part in a Low Input Agricultural Field Day learned more about Intercropping.

Intercropping is the concept of seeding two crops together that benefit each other.

Lana Shaw has been doing work in this area as Research Manager for the South East Research Farm at Redvers.

She says there’s interest from both traditional and organic producers.

"Traditional farmers that want to get off of the treadmill of always putting on more inputs, they are finding ways of trying to reduce more inputs by doing this intercropping. For the organic producers it is a way of dealing with weeds, it's a way of trying to diversify crop rotations," she said.

Shaw says producers need to look at the intercropping variety options, for example, Flax and Chickpea.