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.

Production of technical sheets on the main natural enemies of Québec’s market garden crops.

This project will evaluate labour productivity and identify best practices and recommendations to boost the pork industry competitiveness.

Project to determine the real value of the phosphorus load associated with bison production in Québec.

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.

The aim of this work is to bring IRDA’s agri-environmental expertise to bear on the challenges associated with the conversion of agri-food waste into biomolecules with potential agricultural applications.

Design and validation of a new generation of high tunnels with automatic retractable roofs, new roofing materials, and screens that will extend the harvest season.

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

This project will help lead to the development of an organic farming system to grow baby greens.

This project looks to incorporate the data for the recommended IFP berry products into the SAgE Pesticides database. The goal is to encourage farmers to adopt IFP and make it easier for them to access IFP data.

This project looks to develop decision-support tools informed by observations of “bellwether” plots and use these tools to disseminate relevant information to irrigators.