Organic Field Crop Research in Saskatchewan

• Field Crop Production
• Forages
• Pest Management
• Weed Management

 

Field Crop Production

• NEW!! Progress towards no-till organic weed control in western Canada
• Black medic (Medicago lupulina) germplasm screening for use as a self-regenerating cover crop on the Canadian Prairies
• Cultivar and seeding rate effects on the competitive ability of spring cereals grown under organic production in northern Canada
• Design, rationale and methodological considerations for a long term alternative cropping experiment in the Canadian plain region
• Does growing Canadian Western Hard Red Spring wheat under organic management alter its breadmaking quality?
• Economic and social impacts of organic production systems
• Effects of input management and crop diversity on economic returns and riskiness of cropping systems in the semi-arid Canadian Prairie
• Evaluation of biodegradable mulches for production of warm-season vegetable crops
• Factors Influencing Partial and Complete Adoption of Organic Farming Practices in Saskatchewan, Canada
• Flax varieties for organic farming production
• Haskap breeding at the University of Saskatchewan
• Isolation, selection and characterization of beneficial rhizobacteria from pea, lentil and chickpea grown in western Canada
• No fuss, no muss barley shows good silage potential
• Optimal seeding rate for organic production of lentil in the northern Great Plains
• Optimal seeding rates for organic production of field peas and lentils
• The Optimal Time to License Biotechnology: An Example from the Canadian Wheat Industry
• Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria as biofertilizers
• Saskatchewan Organic On-Farm Research (PDF)
• The soil microbial community and grain micronutrient concentration of historical and modern hard red spring wheat cultivars grown organically and conventionally in the black soil zone of the Canadian Prairies
• Spring wheat genotypes differentially alter soil microbial communities and wheat breadmaking quality in organic and conventional systems
• Who are Organic Consumers?

 

Forages

• NEW!! The influence of a long-term black medic cover crop on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal colonization and nutrient uptake in flax under zero-tillage management
• Managing Annual Green Manures to Improve Yield and Soil Health in Organic Production Systems
• The suitability of cool-and warm-season annual cereal species for winter grazing in Saskatchewan
• Water use by annual green manure legumes in dryland cropping systems

 

Pest Management

• Annual legume green manures and their acceptability to grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae)
• Cultivar resistance to grasshoppers in temperate cereal crops and grasses: A review
• Growth and survival of early-instar grasshoppers on selected perennial grasses, with observations on plant constituents which may influence performance
• Growth and survival to the second instar of neonate grasshopper nymphs, Melanoplus sanguinipes (F.) fed cultivars ancestral to hard red spring wheat
• Plant colonization and environmental fate of the biocontrol fungus Phoma macrostoma

 

Weed Management

• Adapting Mechanical Weed Control to Conventional Cropping Systems: What are the Possibilities?
• Biological weed control
• Can Annual Intercrops Help Control Weeds and Improve Productivity?
• Clipping weeds above a crop canopy
• Dandelion root yield in mature alfalfa fields
• Determining Optimum Plant Population Densities for Three Annual Green Manure Crops Under Weedy and Weed-Free Conditions
• Enhancing the Competitive Ability of Organic Oat (Avena sativa L.) Cropping Systems

 

• Evaluating Interceptor -- an organic herbicide
• Field pea harrowing -- flex-tine weeder or tine harrow?
• Field pea -- manage seeding for best pre-emergence weed control
• In crop weed clipping for organic weed control
• Integrated management of disease, insect and weed pests in alternative crop production systems for Saskatchewan
• Inter-row cultivation -- effective weed control in field pea?
• The Macrocidins: Novel Cyclic Tetramic Acids with Herbicidal Activity Produced by Phoma macrostoma

 

• Organic lentil production -- optimum seeding rate, row spacing
• Photocontrol -- tilling in the dark?
• Post-emergence harrowing for weed control
• Post-emergent field pea harrowing -- rotary or tine?
• Pre-emergence mechanical weed control in field pea
• Selectivity -- an important concept in mechanical weed control
• Using allelopathic and cover crops to suppress weeds

 

• Vinegar For Pre-Seed And Post-Emergence Control Of Broadleaf Weeds
• What is the role of grassland vegetation in grasshopper dynamics?
• The Weed-Competitive Ability of Canada Western Red Spring Wheat Cultivars Grown under Organic Management
• Weed characteristics
• Weed control -- false seed bed technique
• Weeds – how to prevent new problems

 

 

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