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Photo of the Month by Andy Hammermeister
The growing season is underway, as evidenced by this field crew in Nova Scotia working to establish a weed management trial in haskap, a research project of OACC's Director, Andy Hammermeister.

In this issue:

• Practical Resources
• Scientific Results
• Organic in Canada
• News & Articles of Interest

Practical Resources

Horticulture

• Managing Cruciferous and Solanaceous Flea Beetles in Organic Farming Systems
  • eOrganic. 2015

Crop Rotation

• Making the Most of Mixtures: Considerations for Winter Cover Crops in Temperate Climates
  • eOrganic. 2015

Pest Management

• [PDF - 1.3 MB]
  • Great Lakes Vegetable Working Group. 2011
    
• Weeds Your Way: How Upstate New York Organic Farmers Manage Weeds
  • eOrganic. 2015

Livestock

• • Midwest Organic & Sustainable Education Service. 2015

Nutrition, Safety and Health of Organic Foods

• [PDF - 6.1 MB]
  • FiBL. 2015
    

Scientific Results

Soils and Fertility

• • Organic Agriculture (2015) 5: 113-122
• • Soil Science Society of America Journal (2015) 79: 772-782

Horticulture

• • Organic Eprints. 2015
    

Field Crops

• • Weed Science (2015) 63: 461-476
• • Agronomy Journal (2015) 107: 1087-1097
• • Sustainability (2015) 7: 5139-5152
• • Weed Science (2015) 63: 477-490

Pest Management

• • Proceedings of the Royal Society B (2015) 282: 1808
    
• • Weed Science (2015) 63: 335-376

Livestock

• Carbon footprints of organic dairying in six European countries鈥攔eal farm data analysis
  • Organic Agriculture (2015) 5: 91-100
• • Journal of Dairy Science (2015) 98: 3876-3886
• Farmers taking responsibility for herd health development鈥攕table schools in research and advisory activities as a tool for dairy health and welfare planning in Europe
  • Organic Agriculture (2015) 5: 135-141

Nutrition, Safety and Health of Organic Foods

• • Organic Agriculture (2015) 5: 153-159
• • Journal of Food Science (2015) 80: C942-C949

Marketing and Economics

• • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Online, ahead of print
    

Organic in Canada

• • Organic Alberta. 2015
• • Canada Organic Trade Association. 2015
• • Prairie Organic Grains Initiative. 2015
• [PDF - 423 kB]. Comment period open to June 22, 2015
  
  • Standards Interpretation Committee. 2015

News & Articles of Interest

• • Coop 脛nglamark. 2015
    

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