Research Projects

This pan-Canadian project conducted in Ontario, Québec, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick focuses on strategies for controlling three key pests in apple production.

The project’s objective is to make available an indoor and outdoor exercise yard design that improves dairy cow and calf well-being while complying with Québec regulations.

Design and validation of a new generation of high tunnels with automatic retractable roofs, new roofing materials, and screens that will extend the harvest season.

This project will formulate multiple independent, but potentially synergistic, strategies to control Spotted Wing Drosophila.

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

The project’s overall goal is to slow the arrival of Spotted Wing Drosophila in crop plots using mass trapping at overwintering sites.

Test whether or not commercial strains coated on Nantes carrot seeds can compete with native strains in the soil to colonize the host plant and, once symbiosis takes place, whether they succeed in doing a better job than the native strains during the transition to organic farming.

The goal of the project is to improve biological methods for controlling the cabbage seedpod weevil in canola crops. In this project, initiated by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and conducted in Québec by UQAM, IRDA is performing an economic analysis of the practices under study.

This project’s main goal is to demonstrate how to satisfy most of the requirements of a strongly N-dependent crop by improving N-supply synchronization, while protecting the farmers’ prior year revenue-generating window.

This project aims to improve our understanding of the evolution and spatial variability of soil health indicators as barometers of climate change.

This project will evaluate the efficiency of the initial releases of sterile spotted wing drosophilas on fall raspberry plots.

This project’s goal is to develop a large-scale inundative release method using the same trichogramma species employed in a previous project.

Project to increase the use of mating disruption to control codling moths.

Validation and adaptation of pest and disease monitoring and decision support tools.

Analyzing the factors influencing European corn borer abundance in Québec to improve monitoring methods and better manage future risks associated with this pest.