Organic Soils Research - Atlantic Region

A. Soil Fertility

• NEW!! Assessing soil nitrogen availability in contrasting cropping systems at the end of transition to organic production
• Are compost teas an effective nutrient amendment in the cultivation of strawberries? Soil and plant tissue effects
• Available nitrogen and phosphorus in soil amended with fresh or composted cattle manure containing straw or wood-chip bedding
• Biological Contributions to Plant Phosphorus Uptake in Organic and Conventional Dairy Farm Soils
• Biowaste usage for soil erosion control and soil physical improvement under potatoes in Atlantic Canada
• The effects of organic amendments on mineral element uptake and fruit quality of raspberries
• The effects of organic and conventional nutrient amendments on strawberry cultivation: Fruit yield and quality
• Effects of Rotational Grazing on the Dynamics of Soil Carbon and Nitrogen on Commercial Dairy Farms

• Evaluation of nitrogen supply rate measured by in situ placement of Plant Root Simulator probes as a predictor of nitrogen supply from soil and organic amendments in potato crop
• Improving the nutrient status of a commercial dairy farm: An integrated approach
• Improving green manure quality with phosphate rocks in Ontario Canada
• Influence of grazingland management on soil carbon
• Influence of Organic Farming on Quality of Soil Organic Matter and Physical and Chemical Properties of Soils
• Influencing the phosphorus quality of green manure with phosphate rocks in organic farming systems
• Long-term influence of compost on available water capacity of a fine sandy loam in a potato rotation
• Nitrogen Availability from Composts for Humid Region Perennial Grass and Legume–Grass Forage Production

• Nutrient budgets of Ontario organic dairy farms
• Nutrient Supply from Organic Soil Amendments: Implications for Fertility Management
• Nutrient supply from organic amendments applied to unvegetated soil, lettuce and orchardgrass
• Organic amendment effects on tuber yield, plant N uptake and soil mineral N under organic potato production
• Phosphorous Deficiencies on Canadian Organic Farms
• Phosphorus status on Canadian organic farms
• Productivity, Soil Quality Changes and Nitrogen Losses Under Extended Organic Vegetable Rotations
• Quantifying the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions as a result of composting dairy and beef cattle manure
• Residues from a buckwheat green manure crop grown with phosphate rock influence bioavailability of soil phosphorus
• A review of the use of composted municipal solid waste in agriculture

• Soil community changes during secondary succession to naturalized grasslands
• Soil fertility, yield, and nutrient contents of vegetable crops after twelve years of compost or fertilizer amendments
• Soil Physical Properties and Organic Matter Fractions Under Forages Receiving Composts, Manure or Fertilizer
• Uncomposted Wool and Hair-Wastes as Soil Amendments for High-Value Crops
• Use of 13C and 15N Natural Abundance Techniques to Characterize Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in Composting and in Compost-Amended Soils

B. Soil Health

• NEW!! Influence of agricultural soils on the growth and reproduction of the bio-indicator Folsomia candida
• Manual of On-Farm Vermicomposting and Vermiculture
• Soil Physical Properties and Organic Matter Fractions Under Forages Receiving Composts, Manure or Fertilizer
• Soil Quality & Productivity
• Studies on Soil Sustainability: The Effect of Forages and Livestock in Organic Agricultural Systems
  

C. Other

• Premier Tech Biotechnologies Validation Field Testing
• Seasonal Moisture and Nitrogen Availability in Organic Potato Production as Affected by Organic Amendments

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