Organic Friends' E‑zine: June 2017

Photo of the Month, by the Organic Value Chain Roundtable
The Organic Who's Who! Prepared by the Organic Value Chain Roundtable, this document maps and charts the many organic stakeholder organizations in Canada. Click on the map above to access the full PDF [910 kB] and explore the many organizations that are invested in organic agriculture in the country.

In this issue:

• Organic Science Cluster II
  
• Practical Resources
• Scientific Results
• Organic in Canada
• News & Articles of Interest
• Student, Job and Apprentice Opportunities
• Events

Organic Science Cluster II

• Results of the 2017 Knowledge Translation and Transfer 7-Minute Survey of the Organic Sector [PDF - 1.0 MB]
  
  • OACC and OFC. 2017
• Presentations and posters from the 2^nd Canadian Organic Science Conference
  • IRDA. 2017
    Note: Not all presentations are related to Organic Science Cluster II, but many are.

Practical Resources

Soils and Fertility

• Soil Health and Organic Farming: An Ecological Approach
  • Organic Farming Research Foundation. 2017

Field Crops

• Growing and Dehulling the Ancient Grains Einkorn, Emmer and Spelt – Video
  • eOrganic. 2017

Social Science

• U.S. Organic Hotspots and their Benefit to Local Economies: Hotspot Identification, Formation, Impacts, and Policy Recommendations [PDF – 1.4 MB]
  • Organic Trade Association. 2017

Transition to Organic

• Breaking New Ground: Farmer Perspectives on Organic Transition (USA) [PDF - 19.1 MB]
  • Oregon Tilth and Oregon State University's Center for Small Farms & Community Food Systems. 2017
• Results of a National Transition to Organic Survey (USA) Recorded Webinar
  • USDA Science & Technology Training Library Webinar Portal for Conservation of Natural Resources. 2017
    

Scientific Results

Soils and Fertility

• Agricultural management practices influence AMF diversity and community composition with cascading effects on plant productivity
  • Applied Soil Ecology (2017) 115: 53-59

Horticulture

• Influence of Organic Farming on the Potato Transcriptome
  • Sustainability (2017) 9: 779
• Mass Release of Trichogramma evanescens and T. cacoeciae Can Reduce Damage by the Apple Codling Moth Cydia pomonella in Organic Orchards under Pheromone Disruption
  • Insects (2017) 8: 41
• Species diversity and community composition of native arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in apple roots are affected by site and orchard management
  • Applied Soil Ecology (2017) 116: 42-54

Field Crops

• Climate change, agricultural inputs, cropping diversity, and environmental covariates in multivariate analysis of future wheat, barley, and canola yields in Canadian Prairies: a case study
  • Canadian Journal of Plant Science (2017) 97: 300-318
    
• Control of perennial weeds in spring cereals through stubble cultivation and mouldboard ploughing during autumn or spring
  • Crop Protection (2017) 98: 16-23
• Effects of Crop Inputs, Diversity, Environment and Terrain on Yield in an 18-year Study in the Semi-Arid Canadian Prairie
  • Canadian Journal of Plant Science (2017) Online, ahead of print
• Rolled Mixtures of Barley and Cereal Rye for Weed Suppression in Cover Crop—based Organic No-Till Planted Soybean
  • Weed Science (2017) 56: 426-439

Crop Rotation

• Rye–Vetch Spatial Arrangement and Tillage: Impacts on Soil Nitrogen and Sweet Corn Roots
  • Agronomy Journal (2017) 109: 1013-1023

Pest Management

• Control of Elymus repens by rhizome fragmentation and repeated mowing in a newly established white clover sward
  • Weed Research (2017) 57: 172-181
• Response and effect traits of arable weeds in agro-ecosystems: a review of current knowledge
  • Weed Research (2017) 57: 123-147

Livestock

• An Experimental Approach to the Investment Timing of Conventional and Organic Hog Farmers
  • Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics (2017) 65: 293-315
• Fattening and slaughtering performance of growing pigs consuming high levels of alfalfa silage (Medicago sativa) in organic pig production
  • Livestock Science (2017) 200: 46-52
• Silage of young harvested alfalfa (Medicago sativa) as home-grown protein feed in the organic feeding of laying hens
  • Organic Agriculture (2017) 7: 153-163

Social Science

• Development of Organic Farming in Europe at the Crossroads: Looking for the Way Forward through System Archetypes Lenses
  • Sustainability (2017) 9: 821
• Hot Spots and Spatial Autocorrelation in Certified Organic Operations in the United States
  • Agricultural and Resource Economics Review (2016) 45: 485-521

Marketing and Economics

• The effect of sales promotions on consumers’ organic food response: An application of logistic regression model
  • British Food Journal (2017) 119: 1247-1262
• Organic food in food policy and in public catering: lessons learned from Finland
  • Organic Agriculture (2017) 7: 111-124
• The quality of organic market data: providing data that is both fit for use and convenient
  • Organic Agriculture (2017) 7: 141-152

Organic in Canada

• New comment period for Standards Interpretation Committee's Questions and Answers Regarding the National Standards for Organic Agriculture [PDF - 667 kB]
  Comment period open until July 5, 2017
  
  
• COG Testifies Before the Senate Standing Committee for Agriculture and Forestry - In May, Derek Lynch, Associate Professor at Dalhousie University, and Ashley St Hilaire, Director of Programs and Government Relations with COG, testified to the Senate Standing Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, about the resiliency of organic agriculture in the face of climate change. Read the briefing notes or watch the video
  
  
• OFC Survey Results: Non-Compliances Under Organic Management [PDF - 697 kB]
  
  • Organic Federation of Canada. 2017
    
    
• The Canadian Organic Grower magazine launches a brand new website!
  
  
• Investment of $9.62 million in infrastructure at Cégep de Victoriaville will support organic research and innovation activities
  
  
• Investment made in soil health program at Dal AC
  • Truro Daily News. 2017
    
    
• The W. Garfield Weston Foundation Contributes $2-Million to Canadian Seed Biodiversity
  • USC Canada. 2017
    

News & Articles of Interest

• OrganicBiz articles
  • Organic farming gaining street cred
  • Organic, conventional farmers encounter different weed issues
  • What’s holding back organic growth in Saskatchewan?
• Weeds are a few of my favourite things and have role to play
  • Organic Matters Column, The Western Producer. 2107
• Robust organic sector stays on upward climb, posts new records in U.S.
  • Organic Trade Association. 2017

Student, Job and Apprentice Opportunities

• ACORN is hiring for a 2017 Conference Assistant
  • Deadline to submit application is June 21st, 2017 at 4:00 PM
• The Prairie Organic Grain Initiative is hiring an Organic Grain Programs Coordinator
  • Deadline to submit application is June 23rd, 2017

Events