Research Projects

Irrigation project to spare farmers the loss of competitiveness and other risks brought about by drought periods.

Showcase that will present and compare, in an impartial manner, a number of decision-support tools and technologies.

This project aims to explore and experiment new approaches and ways to preserve, develop, and enhance the MRC’s bio-food sector, and reduce or eliminate the water deficit on the island.

As part of this project, the soil water status at a chosen blueberry farm will be monitored at 40 spots over the course of the production year. We will seek to identify the relationship between water extraction, physicochemical and environmental factors, and yield levels that could help explain yield variability.

The selection of a cultivar should be an essential element in any sound irrigation management strategy. This project aims to optimize water use in potato farming.

Modifying the cropping system design is an effective way to improve potato crop water-use efficiency and, thereby, lessen the risk of crops experiencing water stress.

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

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

This project proposes an intervention in a typical potato cropping system to enhance the crop uptake of water and nitrogen.

Designing and teaching a course for agricultural consultants.

Exploration of the potential of detecting water stress in lowbush blueberries using a thermal infrared imaging sensor installed on a drone.

The aim of this project is to improve the productivity of haskap orchards by promoting more efficient water and nutrient uptake.

The aim of this project was to study the relationship between thermal imaging data collected by drone and agrometerological indicators of water stress in potato crops.

The hypothesis was that it should be possible to measure sap flow in apple trees and correlate it with soil water conditions and the weather.

The aim of this project was to leverage the efficiency of drip irrigation and splitting nitrogen inputs into multiple applications to reduce total nitrogen inputs per unit produced and provide better economic and environmental alternatives to conventional irrigation.