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Field Crops

• – Development of breeding strategies for organic soybean production systems in Canada. [PDF 1.04 MB]
  
• – Evaluation of farmer-selected wheat, oat and potato genotypes under organic production in Eastern and Western Canada. [PDF 5.72 MB]
  
• Activity 4 – Efficacy of using cover crops in 2 of the 3 growing seasons on nitrogen supply in an organic soybean-winter wheat-corn rotation.
• – Organic oat breeding: oat cultivars specifically developed for organic production systems in Canada. [PDF 2.56 MB]
  
• Activity 6 – Breeding of winter cereals to benefit no-till organic production systems.
• – Optimizing yield and resilience of organically grown milling oat. [PDF 5.60 MB]
  
• – The right balance: management strategies for plugging organic soil health constraints and moving forward. [PDF 8.33 MB]
  
• – Diversified cropping strategies to improve sustainability of organic crop production in the Brown soil zone. [PDF 3.74 MB]
  
• – Agronomic performance, resilience and baking quality of wheat cultivar mixtures adapted to organic management in Eastern Canada. [PDF 1.53 MB]

Horticulture

• – Participatory variety trialing and breeding for commercial organic vegetable growers and seed producers in Canada. [PDF 2.30 MB]
  
• Activity 12 – Development of an organically managed baby greens production system: a multidisciplinary approach.
• Activity 13 – Organic vertical farming (OVF) vs. smart use of greenhouses.
• – Improving organic vegetable farm sustainability through enhanced nutrient management planning. [PDF 7.82 MB]
  
• – Unique cover crops, rootstocks, and irrigation techniques for Canadian vineyards. [PDF 11.4 MB]
  
• Activity 16 – Physical control of pests and increasing the harvesting season via an innovative high tunnel adapted to organic berry farming, rain shelter and insect proof nets.

Pest Management

•  – Optimizing tillage and competitive green manures for Canada thistle control. [PDF 1.77 MB]
  
•  – Potential of predatory bugs (Nabis and Orius) as biological control agents of the tarnished plant bug (Lygus lineolaris) in organic strawberry field. [PDF 6.77 MB]
  
•  – Saponins as inducers of host resistance for insect and disease management in organic greenhouse production. [PDF 6.10 MB]
  
•  – Ecological pest management for Spotted Wing Drosophila. [PDF 7.79 MB]
  
•  – Managing wireworms in vegetable crops. [PDF 2.28 MB]
  
•  – Biological control and management of Fusarium head blight and associated diseases in organic grain production. [PDF 3.52 MB]

Livestock

•  – Optimization of berry by-products use in organic poultry production. [PDF 11.9 MB]
  
•  – Welfare friendly alternative to surgical castration for organic pigs. [PDF 3.35 MB]

Environment

• – The effects on soil biology, soil chemistry, and water quality of amending organically managed soils with struvite. [PDF 8.12 MB]
  
•  – Soil health in organic tillage-based systems. [PDF 9.81 MB]
  
•  – Increasing pollination, biological control and beneficial insect diversity farms using flowering habitats. [PDF 5.04 MB]
  
• Activity 29 – Net life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of Canadian organic field crop production systems