Organic Field Crop Research in Manitoba

• Field Crop Production
• Forages
• Crop Rotation

 

 

Field Crop Production

• Agronomic benefits of alfalfa mulch applied to organically managed spring wheat
• Alfalfa Mulch as a Nitrogen Source for Organic Wheat Production
• Blade Roller–Green Manure Interactions on Nitrogen Dynamics, Weeds, and Organic Wheat
• Continuous No-Till Organic Grain Production: Possible?
• Cultivar Mixtures, Cover Crops, and Intercropping with Organic Spring Wheat
• Does growing Canadian western hard red spring wheat under organic management alter its breadmaking quality?
• Energy Use and Efficiency in Crop Production (PDF)

 

• Effect of Intercropping and Cultivar Mixtures on Organic Wheat
• Evidence of contamination of pedigreed canola (Brassica napus) seedlots in western Canada with genetically engineered herbicide resistance traits
• Examining the Nitrogen Economy of Organically Selected Wheat Genotypes
• Exploring Organic Agriculture's Place within the Agricultural Revolution
• Intercropping spring wheat with cereal grains, legumes and oilseeds fails to improve productivity under organic management
• Legume cover crops with winter cereals in southern Manitoba: Fertilizer replacement values for oat
• Legume cover crops with winter cereals in southern Manitoba: Establishment, productivity, and microclimate effects

 

• Mycorrhizal colonization of flax under long-term management
• Mycorrhizal colonization, P uptake and yield of older and modern wheats under organic management
• Nitrogen Dynamics and Wheat Yield in a No-Till Organic Green Manure System Using the Roller Crimper
• Spring wheat genotypes differentially alter soil microbial communities and wheat breadmaking quality in organic and conventional systems

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
• NEW!! Integrating green manure and grazing systems: A review
• Growth and N Supply from Legume Cover Crops in Organic Rye and Wheat Production
• Influence of annual forages on weed dynamics
• Potential of Forages to Diversify Cropping Systems
• Rotational benefits of forage crops in prairie cropping systems
• Weed suppression by alfalfa in subsequent cereal crops

 

Crop Rotation

• NEW!! The Effect of Rotation and In-Crop Weed Management on the Germinable Weed Seedbank after 10 Years
• Black medic (Medicago lupulina) germplasm screening for use as a self-regenerating cover crop on the Canadian Prairies
• Crop response to current and previous season applications of phosphorus as affected by crop sequence and tillage
• Crop Rotations For Soil-Building & Weed Control: 12 Years Of Glenlea
• Crop Rotation And Soil Erosion Risk In Organic And Conventional Systems
• Glenlea long-term rotation: 10 years of organic vs. conventional crop production (Abstract)
• Glenlea Long-Term Rotation
  • Canada's oldest organic-conventional comparison study
• The influence of crop rotation on the mineral nutrient content of organic vs. conventionally produced wheat grain
• Influence of organic management with different crop rotations on selected productivity parameters in a long-term Canadian field study
• Perennials in rotation reduce erosion
• Rotational benefits of forage crops in prairie cropping systems
• Soil Erosion Risk and Mitigation through Crop Rotation on Organic and Conventional Cropping Systems
• Weed, disease and grain yield effects of cultivar mixtures in organically managed spring wheat

 

 

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