Extension Resources - Field Crops- Saskatchewan

 

Crop Production

• NEW!! Weed Management for Organic Producers (SOD)
• NEW!! Khorasan (Kamut Brand) Wheat Factsheet (Saskatchewan)
• Changing Weed Populations Under Long-term Organic Management (Video)
• Crop Planning Guides (Saskatchewan)
  • Black Soil Zone
  • Dark Brown Soil Zone
  • Brown Soil Zone
• Crop rotations for organic systems
• Economics and energy efficiency of alternative input and crop diversity strategies (OACC)
• Farmer sees future in flax

 

• Feasibility study for shelf-ready products for the health food market from small on-farm processing plants for organic field crops grown in Saskatchewan
• Green manure options - On-farm demonstration (OACC)
• Green manure options for organic farmers (OACC)
• Increasing posphorus availability through green manure, composted manure and rock phosphate (OACC)
• Management of sweet clover for nitrogen supply, soil conservation and weed control (OACC)
• Organic Crops Price Survey 2006
  • Saskatchewan Spreadsheet for 2006

 

• Organic Crop Production: Disease Management
• Organic Farming - An Introduction to Crop and Livestock Production
• Organic Planning Through Transition
• Photo Album from Field Days - Saskatchewan Office - Summer '07
• Saskatchewan best organic management practices (OACC)
• Seeding rate for weed control in organic spring wheat (OACC)

 

Weed Management

• NEW!! Organic producers eager for Canada thistle control (Western Producer)
• Biological weed control
• Crop husbandry for weed management
• Growing a competitive crop -- first step in weed control
• Harrowing for weed control and improved yield (OACC)
• Harrowing on Saskatchewan Farms (OACC)
• Livestock and other beneficial organisms for weed management
• Organic Crop Production: Weed Management (Saskatchewan)

 

• Organic Weed Management - Spoke Program
• Soil fertility affects weed and crop competition
• Summerfallow as a weed management strategy -- pros and cons
• Tillage for weed control -- an introduction
• Using allelopathic and cover crops to suppress weeds
• Weed Inspectors in Saskatchewan
• Weeds -- when are they a good thing?
• Weeds -- when are they a problem?
• Weeds on organic farms
• Weed characteristics
• Weeds -- how to prevent new problems

 

Insect Management

• Grasshopper species to watch for in 2004, on the Canadian Prairies and Northern Great Plains
• Organic Crop Management - Insect Management

 

 

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