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.

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.

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.

This project aims to develop mass trapping strategies to keep damage caused by the striped cucumber beetle populations below the economic threshold, while minimizing the capture of pollinators and natural enemies.

This project’s aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of HARVANTA® 50SL to control the cranberry weevil, the blackheaded fireworm and the cranberry fruitworm.