Organic Friends' E鈥憐ine: May 2017

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Organic Friends' E鈥憐ine: May 2017

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The OACC's Director, Andy Hammermeister, was delighted to host a brief meeting with Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard while the Senator was on the Dalhousie Agricultural Campus to participate in the convocation ceremony last week. Senator Bernard serves on the Senate Standing Committee for Agriculture and Forestry, which is currently doing a study on the effects of climate change on agriculture.

OACC Director's Message
As Organic Science Cluster II (OSCII) enters its final year, we are turning our minds towards preparing for Organic Science Cluster III (OSCIII). In February, the Call for Letters of Intent for Organic Science Cluster III was announced. Like OSCII, OSCIII is a joint initiative led by the in collaboration with the Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada at pilipili漫画. We are delighted to have received 80 Letters of Intent for OSCIII, and were excited to see the broad scope of interest from researchers right across Canada. The total combined budget of the Letter of Intent submissions was more than double the targeted budget for OSCIII. This meant that the LOI Review Committee, made up of 20 leading organic sector professionals and stakeholders who assessed the strategic priority and potential impact of the proposed activities, had many difficult decisions to make. The researchers have now been notified of the Review Committee decisions, and are now busily preparing proposals for a wide range of research activities that span the breadth of organic production and the country.听 We at the OACC and OFC now turn our minds to developing the overarching proposal and communications plan. To help guide our communications activity, I would like to take this opportunity to invite you to participate in our . I end with a word of thanks for the hard work of the LOI Review Committee, and also to the many researchers and industry partners who have expressed interest in OSCIII. We are looking forward to another five years of impactful organic research in Canada! Sincerely, Andy Hammermeister, Ph.D., P.Ag. Director, OACC Assistant Professor, Dalhousie Faculty of Agriculture

OACC Director's Message

As Organic Science Cluster II (OSCII) enters its final year, we are turning our minds towards preparing for Organic Science Cluster III (OSCIII). In February, the Call for Letters of Intent for Organic Science Cluster III was announced. Like OSCII, OSCIII is a joint initiative led by the in collaboration with the Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada at pilipili漫画.

We are delighted to have received 80 Letters of Intent for OSCIII, and were excited to see the broad scope of interest from researchers right across Canada. The total combined budget of the Letter of Intent submissions was more than double the targeted budget for OSCIII. This meant that the LOI Review Committee, made up of 20 leading organic sector professionals and stakeholders who assessed the strategic priority and potential impact of the proposed activities, had many difficult decisions to make. The researchers have now been notified of the Review Committee decisions, and are now busily preparing proposals for a wide range of research activities that span the breadth of organic production and the country.听 We at the OACC and OFC now turn our minds to developing the overarching proposal and communications plan. To help guide our communications activity, I would like to take this opportunity to invite you to participate in our .

I end with a word of thanks for the hard work of the LOI Review Committee, and also to the many researchers and industry partners who have expressed interest in OSCIII. We are looking forward to another five years of impactful organic research in Canada!

Sincerely,
Andy Hammermeister, Ph.D., P.Ag.
Director, OACC
Assistant Professor, Dalhousie Faculty of Agriculture

The and pilipili漫画's Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada invite you to participate in a to help guide how research underway in organic agriculture in Canada makes its way back to you, the people who can put the research findings in practice. With your help, we can make sure that organic agriculture research has impact!

Visit to participate by May 29, 2017.

Organic Science Cluster II

Latest research results

(Video)
- IRDA. 2017
[PDF - 1.9 MB]
- Poster presented at the 2nd Canadian Organic Science Conference. 2016
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- Poster presented at the 2017 Weed Science Society of America Annual Conference

Practical Resources

Soils and Fertility

- The Organic Center. 2017
- Keynote Presentation at the 2016 Organic Connections Conference

Horticulture

- Rodale Institute. 2017
- eOrganic. 2017

Ecology and Environment

- eOrganic. 2017
- eOrganic. 2017
[PDF 鈥� 1.9 MB]
- IFOAM and FiBL. 2017

Scientific Results

Soils and Fertility

- Applied Soil Ecology (2017) 114: 82-89
- HortTechnology (2017) 27: 162-165
- HortTechnology (2017) 27: 171-176

Horticulture

- HortTechnology (2017) 27: 151-161
- European Journal of Agronomy (2017) 86: 1-11
- HortScience (2017) 52: 377-381
- HortTechnology (2017) 27: 166-170

Field Crops

- American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2017) 532-545
- Crop Protection (2017) 96: 97-102
- Field Crops Research (2017) 207: 42-51
- Weed Technology (2017) 31: 320-329
- Canadian Journal of Plant Science (2017) 97: 298-307

Livestock

- Foodborne Pathogens and Disease (2017) 14: 29-34
- Journal of Cleaner Production (2017) 152: 167-180

Ecology and Environment

- Journal of Cleaner Production (2017) 153: 309-319
- European Journal of Agronomy (2017) 86: 37-47
- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2017) 243: 19-26
- Agricultural Systems (2017) 153: 81-93
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- Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment (2017) 243: 67-73

Social Science

- Agriculture and Human Values (2017) 34: 1-14

Marketing and Economics

- Appetite (2017) 114: 175-186

Food for Organic Thought, Discussion and Debate

- Sustainability (2017) 9: 330
- Sustainability (2017) 9: 392
- eOrganic. 2017
- Sustainability (2017) 9: 580

Organic in Canada

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- Prairie Organic Grain Initiative. 2017
- Prairie Organic Grain Initiative. 2017
- Statistics Canada. 2017

News & Articles of Interest

OrganicBiz articles
- The Western Producer. 2017

Events

Event	Location	Date
	Montreal, QC	October 13-15, 2017
	New Delhi, India	November 9-11, 2017

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Organic Friends' E-Zine May 2017, Volume 13, Issue 7
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