More and more farmers in North Dakota are showing interest in cash-grain intercropping. Intercropping involves planting two different crops in the same field at the same time, harvesting them together and then separating them to sell the grains.

Some people call the practice poly cropping or companion cropping.

“It looks promising,” says Morgan Jacobs of Noonan, N.D. He and his brother, Isaac, intercropped 1,450 of the 5,500 acres they farm with their father, Greg, this year. They are intercropping chickpeas with flax, and field peas with mustard. They also are experimenting with mixes of faba beans and several other grain crops.

Click through the slideshow to see how intercropping has benefitted the Jacobs, and other operations across the state.