Organic Friends' E-Zine
Highlighting up-dates on the Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada (OACC) website
en français	November 2007 Celebrating Volume 4, Issue 1 !!	Subscribe a friend!

Photo of the Month by Roxanne Beavers
Certified organic seed for different cultivars of broccoli were tested on organic farms across PEI, NB, and NS (including the OACC Brookside site)

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NEW Feature!! Farm Animal Welfare in Organic Livestock Production is the official web presence for the Animal Welfare Task Force of the Expert Committee for Organic Agriculture, and will serve as the central location for welfare-related information for organic livestock producers, certifying bodies, extension specialists and researchers.

• Bioveg Project - A long-term vegetable rotations experiment in NB
• Short-term effect of soil disturbance by mechanical weeding on plant available nutrients
• Short-term effects of mechanical weeding on soil and tissue N in snap beans
  

Featured Researcher: Derek Lynch, Canada Research Chair in Organic Agriculture

• Building a cover crop “crimper-roller” and farm trials (PDF, 663 kbs)
• Transitioning to organic: Pine Creek Apple Orchards

• OACC Field Projects 2007 - Nova Scotia
• Tucker Meadow Goat Farm - Nova Scotia

• "Eat your words, all who scoff at organic food" (London Times)
• FAO issues report calling for new thinking on avian flu poultry risks

• Organic Fertility: Are Green Manures Enough?
• "Pandemonium" : Courting Chaos Through Agriculture

• Western and Eastern Canada

Useful Links

• Organic Industry Listings for Alberta

Award-winners

• Producer award
  • Raymond Loo, PEI won the Gerritt Loo Memorial Achievement Award from ACORN (Atlantic Canada Organic Regional Network) for 2007
• Graduate student awards
  • Jody Nelson has received three scholarships:
    • $1,000 Merle Cail Memorial Scholarship
    • $2,500 Renée Covill Scholarship
    • $1,000 G.G. Smeltzer Memorial Bursary
  • Donald Kerr received the 2007 Dr. Chesley E. Smith Memorial Graduate Scholarship of $500 through the Nova Scotia Agricultural College (NSAC) for his graduate studies related to seed quality and the applications of organic seed treatments to improve crop establishment.

• Check out the latest Environment Canada forecast for weather in your local area

 

Organic Friends' E-Zine November 2007, Vol 4, Iss 1
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