Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada

Faculty of Agriculture

OSC3 Final Project Summaries

Activity 2 – Development of breeding strategies for organic soybean production systems in Canada. [PDF 1.04 MB]
Activity 3 – 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.
Activity 5 – 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.
Activity 7 – Optimizing yield and resilience of organically grown milling oat. [PDF 5.60 MB]
Activity 8 – The right balance: management strategies for plugging organic soil health constraints and moving forward. [PDF 8.33 MB]
Activity 9 – Diversified cropping strategies to improve sustainability of organic crop production in the Brown soil zone. [PDF 3.74 MB]
Activity 10 – Agronomic performance, resilience and baking quality of wheat cultivar mixtures adapted to organic management in Eastern Canada. [PDF 1.53 MB]

Activity 11 – 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.
Activity 14 – Improving organic vegetable farm sustainability through enhanced nutrient management planning. [PDF 7.82 MB]
Activity 15 – 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.

Activity 17 – Optimizing tillage and competitive green manures for Canada thistle control. [PDF 1.77 MB]
Activity 18 – 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]
Activity 19 – Saponins as inducers of host resistance for insect and disease management in organic greenhouse production. [PDF 6.10 MB]
Activity 20 – Ecological pest management for Spotted Wing Drosophila. [PDF 7.79 MB]
Activity 21 – Managing wireworms in vegetable crops. [PDF 2.28 MB]
Activity 22A – Biological control and management of Fusarium head blight and associated diseases in organic grain production. [PDF 3.52 MB]

Activity 24 – Optimization of berry by-products use in organic poultry production. [PDF 11.9 MB]
Activity 25 – Welfare friendly alternative to surgical castration for organic pigs. [PDF 3.35 MB]

Activity 26 – The effects on soil biology, soil chemistry, and water quality of amending organically managed soils with struvite. [PDF 8.12 MB]
Activity 27 – Soil health in organic tillage-based systems. [PDF 9.81 MB]
Activity 28 – 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