Research Projects

The Apple Phytosanitary Warning Network.

Codling moth sexual confusion.

Evaluation of the effectiveness of various predator combinations in controlling spotted wing drosophilia.

Evaluation of new practices to control cutworms in organic vegetable production.

New, robotic weed control strategy for widespread use in field vegetables grown organically in Québec.

Developing a new scab control strategy based on selecting the lowest-risk products that best fit the circumstances at hand, and tailoring the doses accordingly.

Optimizing spraying through exclusion nets.

Developing and assessing the planting of flower strips in orchard inter-rows as an alternative to the application of insecticides.

Ten test sites will operate over a two-year period on farms spread over ten Québec regions to compare the performance of winter and spring cereals.

This project seeks to reduce the use of chemical insecticides in orchards by controlling apple maggot populations using mass trapping.

Development of a growing out-of-soil organic raspberries in high tunnels protocol in a profitable and competitive manner with a view to selling products locally or to large retail chains.

In this project, initiated by Agrinova, IRDA will analyze the profitability of techniques used to repel pasture flies in organic dairy production.

This project seeks to develop a knowledge transfer tool to assist organic market gardeners with weed control.

Project initiated to review the knowledge on the fungicide resistance of various pathogens to provide a preliminary assessment of the economic impacts of fungicide resistance.

The model’s predictions will be used to calibrate the dose of a thinning agent (ANA) to be applied in two plots, one treated with carbaryl and the other without, over a two-year period.