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Most row crop systems in North America are currently grown as annual monocultures. Improving sustainability in these systems and meeting the growing world demand for food, fuel and fiber requires a new paradigm guided by sustainable intensification practices. Like adding additional work shifts at a manufacturing plant to leverage more of the total capacity, land use efficiency may be increased by leveraging unused light, soil, & water resources to yield more per acre.
Innovative multi-cropping systems with reduced or removed fallow periods not only intensify agricultural output, but also protect the soil, keeping it covered throughout the year. However, logistical challenges of planting during the post-harvest period hinder adoption of these systems. Inter-seeding before harvest may lower the barrier, but requires addressing variables such as planting dates, time to maturity, and ability to inter-seed, germinate and establish seedlings within a standing crop before harvest. Furthermore, establishing new multi-cropping systems in a region will require new agronomic practices and breeding efforts for optimized varieties.
Corteva believes innovation can have a positive impact on the adoption of multi-cropping systems and are specifically interested in collaborating with public and private sector scientists, organizations and farmers to enable inter-seeding and the establishment of seedlings within multi-cropping systems that include corn, soybean, canola, sorghum, or wheat.
The benefits of intercropping include increased efficiency of resource use, decreased pest and disease pressure, and improved soil health. However, with benefits come significant challenges to common management strategies including crop rotation timing and leveraging common farming equipment.
Corteva is seeking non-confidential proposals that describe a plan to demonstrate novel methods to enable inter-seeding within a scalable intercropping system involving corn, soybean, canola, sorghum, or wheat. Please review the FAQ for important info to include in your proposal.
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At Corteva we use the science of the lab and the land to maximize productivity and sustainability of the world's farmland.
We accomplish this through collaborating with thought leaders and innovators around the world to access and develop the most innovative technologies and rapidly deploying those through organizations that are good stewards of those technologies.
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