Integrating Livestock into Organic Production
- Resources
- Soils and Fertility
- Horticulture
- Field Crops
- Crop Rotation
- Pest Management
- Season Extension
- Seed Production and Plant Breeding
- Livestock
- Ecology and Environment
- Nutrition, Safety and Health of Organic Foods
- Post-harvest Handling, Storage and Processing
- Social Science
- Marketing and Economics
- Transition to Organic
- Canadian Organic Research Priorities
Practical Resources
- Are Livestock and Forages Needed on Organic Farms? [PDF - 206 kB]
- OACC. 2006
- Integrating Livestock and Crops: Improving Soil, Solving Problems, Increasing Income
- ATTRA. 2014
- Integrating Livestock into Dryland Organic Crop Rotations Recorded Webinar
- eOrganic. 2013
- The whole is greater than the sum of its parts with Chris Boettcher
- Prairie Organics: Think Whole Farm Recorded Presentations. 2016
Scientific Results
- Animal Board Invited Review: Comparing conventional and organic livestock production systems on different aspects of sustainability
- Animal (2017) 11:1839-1851
- Collaborative partnerships between organic farmers in livestock-intensive areas of Denmark
- Organic Agriculture (2014) 4: 63-77
- Conversion Strategies for Stockless Organic Systems
- Organic Eprints. 2006
- Crop yields and soil organic matter responses to sheep grazing in US northern Great Plains
- Soil and Tillage Research (2013) 134: 133-141
- Diversification and ecosystem services for conservation agriculture: Outcomes from pastures and integrated crop–livestock systems
- Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2013) 28: 129-144
- Forage potential of six leguminous green manures and effect of grazing on following grain crops
- Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2015) 30: 503-514
- Grazing green manures to optimize nitrogen supply on the Canadian prairies
- Organic Eprints. 2014
- Impact of integrated sheep grazing for cover crop termination on weed and ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) communities
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2016) 218: 141-149
- Integrated Crop/Livestock Agriculture in the United States: A Review
- Journal of Sustainable Agriculture (2011) 35: 376-393
- Integrated forage and livestock production
- Organic Eprints. 2005
- Integrating green manure and grazing systems: A review
- Canadian Journal of Plant Science (2011) 91: 811-824
- Integrating Sheep Grazing into Cereal-Based Crop Rotations: Spring Wheat Yields and Weed Communities
- Agronomy Journal (2015) 107: 104-112
- The legacy of stockless organic conversion strategies
- Annals of Applied Biology (2007) 150: 107-113
- Managing nutrient in organic farming system: reliance on livestock production for nutrient management of arable farmland
- Organic Agriculture (2013) 3: 183-199
- Mixed crop–livestock farming systems: a sustainable way to produce beef? Commercial farms results, questions and perspectives
- Animal (2014) 8: 1218-1228
- Mixed crop-livestock systems: an economic and environmental-friendly way of farming?
- animal (2012) 6: 1722-1730
- Nitrogen Availability in an Organic Potato Crop Following 3-Year Transition under Contrasting Farming Systems
- Journal of Sustainable Agriculture (2010) 34: 821-835
- The Role of Animals in Eco-functional Intensification of Organic Agriculture
- Sustainable Agriculture Research (2015) 4: 103-115
- The Role of Trees and Pastures in Organic Agriculture
- Sustainable Agriculture Research (2015) 4: 51-59
- Soil fertility and crop growth under poultry/crop integration
- Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2013) 28: 173-182
- Stockless organic farming: strengths and weaknesses evidenced by a multicriteria sustainability assessment model
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development (2013) 33: 593-608