Research Projects

Acquiring the knowledge needed to develop an attract-and-kill treatment to control current and future stinkbug populations in Québec apple orchards.

Developing a Codling moth control management tool based on an improved formulation of Virosoft CP4.

Project to quantify the long-term (60+ years) severity of erosion of organic horticultural soils.

Method to monitor and control telluric pathogens affecting potatoes that takes into account the interactions between these pathogens and other soil microbiome organisms.

This pan-Canadian project conducted in Ontario, Québec, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick focuses on strategies for controlling three key pests in apple production.

The project’s objective is to make available an indoor and outdoor exercise yard design that improves dairy cow and calf well-being while complying with Québec regulations.

This project will formulate multiple independent, but potentially synergistic, strategies to control Spotted Wing Drosophila.

The goal of the project is to improve biological methods for controlling the cabbage seedpod weevil in canola crops. In this project, initiated by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and conducted in Québec by UQAM, IRDA is performing an economic analysis of the practices under study.

The overall objective of the project is to inform apple growers via regional demonstration plots of the latest apple IPM techniques.

Development of a strategy for rapidly producing biomass using restoration and irrigation.

The project consists of evaluating soil degradation based on representative samples taken in Québec’s main soil regions and parent materials.