Research Projects

Method to monitor and control telluric pathogens affecting potatoes that takes into account the interactions between these pathogens and other soil microbiome organisms.

Production of technical sheets on the main natural enemies of Québec’s market garden crops.

This project will evaluate labour productivity and identify best practices and recommendations to boost the pork industry competitiveness.

Project to determine the real value of the phosphorus load associated with bison production in Québec.

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.

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 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.

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.

The overall objective of the project is to inform apple growers via regional demonstration plots of the latest apple IPM techniques.