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Practical Resources
- Amending Soils in the Organic Dairy Pasture Recorded Webinar
- eOrganic. 2013
- Cattle trampling reduces the risk of nitrate leaching in organic dairy rotations
- ICROFS. 2010
- Evaluating a Cow's Manure Output Can Provide You With Valuable Input!
- Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food. 2012
- Nutrient Status in Relation to Productivity on Organic Dairy Farms [PDF - 144 kB]
- OACC. 2007
- OACC. 2007
- Phosphorus Availablilty of Organic Dairy Farms: A Closer Look at the Role of Soil Microorganisms [PDF - 121 kB]
- OACC. 2010
- Soil P Status and Nitrogen Fixation on Organic Dairy Farms in Ontario and Nova Scotia [PDF - 204 kB]
- OACC. 2010
- Whole Farm NPK Balances on Maritime Dairy Farms [PDF - 101 kB]
- OACC. 2010
Scientifiic Results
- Conversion of a Conventional to an Organic Mixed Dairy Farming System: Consequences in Terms of N Fluxes
- Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (2015) 39: 978-1002
- Fourier Transform Infrared and Fluorescence Spectral Features of Organic Matter in Conventional and Organic Dairy Manure
- Journal of Environmental Quality (2012) 41: 911-919
- Greenhouse gases and ammonia emissions from organic mixed crop-dairy systems: a critical review of mitigation options
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development (2010) 30: 215-236
- Identifying and controlling critical sources of farm phosphorus imbalances for Vermont dairy farms
- Agricultural Systems (2011) 104: 551-561
- Improving the nutrient status of a commercial dairy farm: An integrated approach
- American Journal of Alternative Agriculture (2003) 18: 137-145
- Losses of nitrogen and phosphorus via the drainage system from organic crop rotations with and without livestock on a clay soil in southwest Sweden
- Organic Agriculture (2012) 1: 217-229
- Management of Canadian Prairie Region Grazed Grasslands: Soil C Sequestration, Livestock Productivity and Profitability
- Canadian Journal of Soil Science (2005) 85: 183-192
- Methods for assessing phosphorus overfeeding on organic and conventional dairy farms
- animal (2014) 8: 286-292
- Nitrate leaching and residual effect in dairy crop rotations with grass–clover leys as influenced by sward age, grazing, cutting and fertilizer regimes
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2015) 212: 75-84
- Nutrient budgets of Ontario organic dairy farms
- Canadian Journal of Soil Science (2008) 88: 107-113
- Quantification of nitrogen inputs from biological nitrogen fixation to whole farm nitrogen budgets of two dairy farms in Atlantic Canada
- Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems (2013) 96: 93-105
- The soil invertebrate contribution to nitrogen mineralisation differs between soils under organic and conventional dairy management
- Biology and Fertility of Soils (2012) 48: 31-42
- Soil phosphorus effects on forage harvested and nitrogen fixation on Canadian organic dairy farms
- Agronomy Journal (2013) 105: 845-853
- Soil phosphorus, potassium and sulphur excesses, regularities and heterogeneity in grazing-based dairy farms
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2015) 201: 70-82
- Sustainability of US Organic Beef and Dairy Production Systems: Soil, Plant and Cattle Interactions
- Sustainability (2013) 5: 3009-3034
- Variations in nitrogen utilisation on conventional and organic dairy farms in Norway
- Agricultural Systems (2017) 157: 11-21