Wireworms can cause serious damage to horticultural food crops. Todd Kabaluk evaluates practices that maintain wireworms at levels acceptable for production of smaller-scale food crops.
Dr. Chandra Moffat speaks about her role in the development of multiple strategies for the management of the spotted wing drosophila, with a focus on organic methods of control.
Dr. Mehdi Sharifi, in partnership with Dr. Liette Vasseur, tests the combinations of cover crops, rootstocks, and irrigation for enhancing vineyard soil health.
Sustainable vegetable production can shape the agricultural landscape: Sean Smukler is building an online tool to enhance nutrient management planning and enhance land stewardship.
Martine Dorais tells us about major advances in fertilization, growing media and substrates, lighting and effluent control in organic greenhouse production systems.
Dr. Jennifer Mitchell Fetch, from AAFC, describes how, over 17 years of work, she has created two new oat cultivars selected to thrive under organic management.
Dr. Peter Tyedmers leads a valuable research activity to estimate the level of greenhouse gas emissions caused by Canadian organic field crop production systems.
Dr. Moussa Diarra, from AAFC, has found exciting results in his OSC3 research activity when feeding organic cranberry and wild blueberry pomace to organic broiler chickens.
Kimberley Schneider and Henry Wilson are conducting research on the use of struvite derived from wastewater to address phosphorus deficiency in organic soils.
Pollinators improve ecosystems. Jason Gibbs looks at how strips of flowers along the edges of field crops can influence their abundance and diversity.
Dr. Simon Lachance is looking for biopesticides to control greenhouse pests. He extracts saponins from tomato crop residues to test the properties of this bioactive molecule.
Caroline Provost and François Dumont are experimenting with predatory bugs to eliminate the tarnished plant bug in strawberry fields and reduce the use of synthetic pesticides.
