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Derek
Lynch, Ph.D., M.Sc., P.Ag.
Canada Research Chair in Organic Agriculture
Phone: 902-893-7621 Fax: 902-896-7095
dlynch@nsac.ca
Research reports, extension and technical bulletins, and news articles featuring Dr. Lynch's work:
A. Research Reports
- NEW!! The Science Behind Organic Environmentalism
- NEW!! Carbon and Global Warming Potential Footprint of Organic Farming (Report to OVCRT)
- Assessment of changes in soil health throughout organic potato rotation sequences
- Assessing CPB Control Options
- Biological Contributions to Plant Phosphorus Uptake in Organic and Conventional Dairy Farm Soils
- Current approaches to organic potato production (PDF)
- Effects of Rotational Grazing on the Dynamics of Soil Carbon. and Nitrogen on Commercial Dairy Farms (PDF)
- Environmental impacts of organic agriculture: a Canadian perspective
- Evaluating Field Pea and Cereal Mixtures For High Protein Organic Feed Production
- Evaluation of nitrogen supply rate measured by in situ placement of Plant Root Simulator probes as a predictor of nitrogen supply from soil and organic amendments in potato crop
- Fertility management
- Greenhouse gas emissions from organically managed potato rotations in Atlantic Canada
- Improving Energy Efficiency and GHG Mitigation Potentials in Canadian Organic Farming Systems
- Improving green manure quality with phosphate rocks in Ontario Canada
- Improving the nutrient status of a commercial dairy farm: An integrated approach
- Influence of agricultural soils on the growth and reproduction of the bio-indicator Folsomia candida
- Influence of grazingland management on soil carbon
- Influence of compost tea, powdered kelp, and Manzate® 75 on bacterial-community composition, and antibiosis against Phytophthora infestans in the potato phylloplane
- Influence of Fertilization on the Colorado Potato Beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say), in Organic Potato Production.
- Integrated Nutrient Management for Organic Dairying in Ontario
- Influencing the phosphorus quality of green manure with phosphate rocks in organic farming systems
- Nitrogen Availability from Composts for Grass and Legume-Grass Forage Production
- Nitrogen Dynamics in Organic Processing Potato Production
- Nutrient budgets of Ontario organic dairy farms
- Nutrient Dynamics in Canadian Agricultural Systems
- Nutrient Status of Organic Dairy Farms in Ontario
- Organic amendment effects on tuber yield, plant N uptake and soil mineral N under organic potato production
- Organic Apple Production for Processing Pilot Project (PDF)
- Organic feed grains research in Atlantic Canada
- Organic Foliar Treatments for Potato Late Blight Control
- Organic Mulch Impact on Vegetation Dynamics and Productivity of Highbush Blueberry Under Organic Production
- Performance and Feed Quality of Oat, Barley and Pea Varieties when Grown Organically in Monocrop or in Mixtures
- Phosphorous Deficiencies on Canadian Organic Farms
- Phosphorus status on Canadian organic farms
- Productivity, Soil Quality Changes and Nitrogen Losses Under Extended Organic Vegetable Rotations
- Research needs in organic potato production (PDF)
- Residues from a buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) green manure crop grown with phosphate rock influence bioavailability of soil phosphorus
- Seasonal Moisture Nitrogen Availability in Organic Potato Production as Affected by Organic Amendments
- Seeding Rate As A Method Of Weed Control In Organic Wheat Production
- Soil physical properties and organic matter in forages receiving composts, manure or fertilizer
- Use of 13C and 15N Natural Abundance Techniques to Characterize Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in Composting and in Compost-Amended Soils
B. Extension Reports & OACC Technical Bulletins
- CPB Control Options and N Fertility in Organic Potato Productions (PDF)
- Ecological impact of organic farming systems (PDF)
- Fertility and weed management in organic highbush blueberry production (PDF)
- GHG Emissions and Nutrient Dynamics in Legume and Potato Rotations (PDF)
- Legumes touted as emission fighters
- Mixed crop options for Maritime organic growers (PDF)
- Nutrient status in relation to management and productivity on organic dairy farms (PDF)
- Organic cropping and grazing systems trials (PDF)
- Organic foliar treatments for control of late blight of potatoes (PDF)
- Phosphate rocks influence green manure growth and soil phosphorus (PDF)
- Seeding rate for weed control in organic spring wheat (PDF)
- Soil health in organic potato systems (PDF)
- Soil phosphorus dynamics as affected by a green manure crop grown with phosphate rocks (PDF)
C. News Articles
- The Environmental Impacts of Organic Agriculture: A Canadian Perspective
- Organic Agriculture Offers Helpful Options to Manage Nutrients
- Organic Farming Methods Enhance Soil Organic Matter
- Too Much Wildlife?
- Nutrient Management for Organic Dairying
- Organic Plant Breeding and Seed Production: Importance and Challenges
- Refining Nutrient Management in Organic Production Systems
- Researchers
show soil microbes increase in organic fields -
Timing of cover crop planting is important to good performance, depending on variety