Research Projects

Project studying ways to maximize workforce productivity in strawberry production.

Project, conducted in collaboration with a Belgian team, to develop an integrated tool for measuring the air quality in livestock buildings.

Project to restore the rainbow smelt spawning grounds at the mouth of Rivière Boyer on the St. Lawrence River.

We will compare the ability of mixed protocols using blended green manure, with or without the addition of farm manure, to satisfy the nitrogen requirements of a silage corn rotation crop.

Ten test sites will operate over a two-year period on farms spread over ten Québec regions to compare the performance of winter and spring cereals.

In this study, we will test alfalfa meal pellets in a broccoli crop planted on plastic-covered irrigated mounds and we will compare them with two organic fertilizer, in addition to a control treatment in which no nitrogen is added.

This project will develop a versatile tool that will allow to simulate the impacts of agricultural practices on soil organic matter.

This project seeks to create farmer partnerships in which participants work on implementing a three-year forage crop rotation protocol in potato and field crop fields.

This project seeks to reduce the use of chemical insecticides in orchards by controlling apple maggot populations using mass trapping.

A labile carbon input would displace some phosphorus into the soil solution, thus making it available again for assimilation into growing plants.

This project will determine the optimal post-emergent nitrogen dose to apply.

Development of a growing out-of-soil organic raspberries in high tunnels protocol in a profitable and competitive manner with a view to selling products locally or to large retail chains.

In this project, initiated by Agrinova, IRDA will analyze the profitability of techniques used to repel pasture flies in organic dairy production.

This project seeks to develop a knowledge transfer tool to assist organic market gardeners with weed control.

This project will modify current protocols with the addition of labile carbon to preserve or rapidly restore the activity of beneficial microorganisms.