October 2011:
Special Organic Week Edition

Photo of the Month, by Organic Week 2011
Celebrate organic food, farming and products in Canada! Canada’s National Organic Week is the largest annual celebration of organic food, farming and products across the country. Hundreds of individual events showcase the benefits of organic agriculture and its positive impact on the environment.

In this issue:

Editor's Note: Organic practitioners may find the information presented in the Newspaper Articles and Extension Information sections to be the most easily accessible and applicable.

• A Note from OACC's Director
• Newspaper Articles
• Extension Information
• Research Articles
• Student and Job Opportunities
• Courses
• Consumers
• Market Information
• Animal Welfare

Newspaper Articles

• Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada Announces Canada’s First Organic Science Conference
• The Organic Federation of Canada celebrates Organic Week and invites new farmers and consumers to join the organic community
• Bacteria may be the solution to replant problems in organic orchards
• More than just taste: Comparisons of organic and conventional bread
  

Extension

About Organic

• Organic Farming for Health and Prosperity (Organic Farming Research Foundation)
• The Rodale Farming Systems Trial: Celebrating 30 Years(Rodale)
• Organic Farm Tour Handbook (ACORN)

Soils and Fertility

• Organic Soil Fertility (eXtension)

Horticulture

• Organic research takes the floor (The Grower)
• Organic Tomato Juice Contains More Beneficial Phenolic Components Than Juice from Conventionally Grown Crops (Science Daily)
  • See the research abstract

Field Crops

• Weeds Are Vital to the Existence of Farmland Species, Study Finds (Science Daily)
  • See the research abstract

Research Articles

• 2nd International Organic Fruit Research Symposium
  2012 June 18-21, Leavenworth, Washington, USA

Soils and Fertility

• High root biomass for cereal crops increases carbon sequestration in organic Arable systems
• Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Crops for Sustainable Agriculture

Horticulture

• Alternative Organic Fungicides for Apple Scab Management and Their Non-target Effects
• Onion and Weed Response to Mustard (Sinapis alba) Seed Meal
• Phenotypic Changes in Different Spinach Varieties Grown and Selected under Organic Conditions

Field Crops

• Diversity of different farmer and modern wheat varieties cultivated in contrasting organic farming conditions in western Europe and implications for European seed and variety legislation
• Fixation and Release of Nitrogen from Novel Cover Crops for Use in Reduced Tillage Organic Corn Production in North Carolina
• Influence of ley duration on the yield and quality of the subsequent cereal crop (spring oats) in an organically managed long-term crop rotation experiment
• The Effect of Rotation and In-Crop Weed Management on the Germinable Weed Seedbank after 10 Years
• New challenges to improve organic bread wheat production in Europe
• Producing organic wheat with high grain protein content: the significance of intercropping and the need for diagnostic tools
• Punch planting, flame weeding and delayed sowing to reduce intra-row weeds in row crops
• The Rodale Farming Systems Trial: Celebrating 30 Years

Food and Health

• Conventional, organic and biodynamic farming: differences in polyphenol content and antioxidant activity of Batavia lettuce
• Is there any difference between the phenolic content of organic and conventional tomato juices?
• Organic Farming for Health and Prosperity

Ecology and Environment

• Environmental assessment of organic juice imported to Denmark: a case study on oranges (Citrus sinensis) from Brazil
• Seeds in farmland food-webs: Resource importance, distribution and the impacts of farm management

Student and Job Opportunities

• Executive Director Position, Canadian Organic Growers
  
  

Courses

• Nova Scotia Agricultural College's Certificate of Specialization in Organic Agriculture
  • Winter Semester 2012
• Organic Field Crop Management
• Organic Livestock Production
• Weed Control in Organic Agriculture
  
  

Consumers

• Transforming Jane Doe’s Diet (Organic Center)
  • Related Documents:
  • The Organic Center’s “Dietary Risk Index”: Tracking Relative Pesticide Risks in Foods and Beverages
  • Identifying Smart Food Choices on the Path to Healthier Diets

Market Information

• The road to 2020: Soil Association launches new corporate strategy

Animal Welfare

• Animal health and welfare planning in organic dairy cattle farms
• Conflicting areas in the ethical debate on animal health and welfare
• Organic Pig Husbandry Systems