Organic Research Database
List of all projects
Organised by keywords; please take note that keyword lists overlap. Projects are listed by the most frequently occuring keywords with which each projects is associated.
- Sustainable Sanitation Technique for Postharvest Quality and Safety of Organic Fruits
- Workshops: Tomato Grafting Techniques for Soil-Borne Disease Resistance
- Evaluation of seed and drench treatments for organic production
- Market Price Analysis for Washington Organic Apples and Pears
- Phytonutrients and Genomics of Organic Tomatoes: Soil Fertility and/or Plant Defense
- Development of Economic and Environmental Life Cycle Analysis Tool for the Assessment of Nitrogen Fertilizers in Apple-Tree Fruit Industry
- Conservation Biology of Syrphids, Predators of Woolly Apple Aphid in Central Washington
- Nutritional Quality of Organic Fruits: Influence of Processing on Phenolic Compounds, Ascorbic Acid
- Identification of Root Disease-Causing Organisms and Their Management in Washington Raspberries
- Quantifying biological control of pear psylla in a cover crop system
- Closing the Gap: Organic Wheat Variety Release in Eastern Washington
- Closing the Gap: Organic Wheat Variety Release in Eastern Washington
- Evaluate Native American Potatoes for Late Blight Resistance
- Identify Disease Predictors for Late Blight Forecasting for Western Washington Organic Potato Production
- Organic Disease Control Methods in High Tunnel Systems
- Plant Breeding for Organic Agriculture Extension Course
- Sample entry
- Contributions to Phytonutrient Content of Organic Tomatoes: Soil Carbon/Nitrogen Sources and/or Plant Defense
- Managing codling moth in organic orchards (presentation).
- Organic Tree Fruit and Nut Pest management in the West: Bringing New Science to Old Problems
- Organic Tree-Fruit Pest Management (OREI)
- Intercropping, Precision weed Management, and Pea Breeding for Organic and Conventional cropping systems
- Assessing effects of an alfalfa cover crop on biological control and tree nutrition in organic pear orchards
- Organic Orchard Equip
- Organic Potato Late Blight Prediction Tool
- Evaluating Soils Receiving Multiple Green Manures for Suppression of Verticillium dahliae
- Vegetable grafting for Verticillium dahliae resistance
- Choosing and managing cover crops to improve weed management in reduced tillage organic vegetable production
- Organic Transition Rotations for Northwestern Washington
- Organic Seed Production and Quality
- Apple orchard productivity and fruit quality under organic, conventional, and integrated management
- Local and landscape-scale conservation of beneficial predators in Columbia Basin Potato Crops
- Evaluating yields and profitability of small-scale organic and biointensive vegetable production in Washington
- Trends in Organic Agriculture in the PNW
- Harnessing microcins for control of scours in neonatal calves
- Assessing Production Issues for Direct Marketing of Beef in Northeast WA
- Health Benefits of Conventional, Organic, and No-till Whole Wheat
- Understory Management in Organic Tree Fruits and Other Woody Perennials
- Organic Seed Treatments
- Post-Plant Management of Nemotodes in Apple Orchards
- Low Disturbance Weed Control in Organic Dryland Cropping Systems
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Wheat Grown in Washington State
- Strategies to Achieve Ecological and Economic Goals in the Transition Phase of Eastern Washington Organic Dryland Grain Production
- Evaluation of Wheat Varieties for Mutualism with Endomycorrhizal Fungi to Improve Phosphorus Uptake
- Wheat Quality in Organic and Conventional Dryland Cropping Systems
- Nutrient quality and disease prevention benefits of organic versus conventional tomatoes and their products.
alternatives
- Organic on-farm bamboo variety trials for shoot/pole production in the Pacific Northwest
- Sudangrass production and quality
- Alternative methods for controlling plant disease including chitosan and copper
antioxidant
aphids
apple
- Rose Habitats to Enhance Leafroller Biological Control in Pome Fruits
- Income risk assessment of organic apple production in the Pacific Northwest
- WSU IPM Decision Aid System for Tree Fruits
arugula
biocontro
Biocontrol
bionematicides
blueberries raspberries phytonutrients
brassica
breeding
- Developing wheat varieties for organic agricultural systems
- Integrating cultivar, soil and environment to develop regional value-added wheat crops with enhanced nutritional value
- Evaluate pea germplasm for pea cyst nematode resistance
cabbage
- Control of Xanthomonas in Cabbage Seed
- Integrating Biological Control into Cole Crop Production in the Pacific Northwest
carrot
certification
- Training of farmers and extension agents on organic certification
- Alternative agriculture workshop series, Centralia Community College (1996-1999)
- Organic certification education for extension agents and new farmers
CERWA
cherry
codling moths
Colorado potato beetle
composting
- Agricultural use of yard trimmings
- Evaluate copper hydroxide and compost tea for late blight control
- Composting process and utilization
- Composting research program
- Composting and utilization
cover crop
- Assessing Soil Quality in Intensive Organic Management Systems
- Nitrogen Supply and Partitioning in Managed Understories of Organic Apples
- Growing nitrogen in the organic orchard
- PLANT BREEDING AND AGRONOMIC RESEARCH FOR ORGANIC HOP PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
- Plant breeding and agronomic research for organic hop production systems
- Cover crops for N supply for organic grape management
- Assessing effects of an alfalfa cover crop on biological control and tree nutrition in organic pear orchards.
cover crops
- Winter cover cropping and soil and water quality
- Cover cropping systems for potatoes, including biofumigation using green manures
- NO-TILL ORGANIC VEGETABLE PRODUCTION IN WESTERN WASHINGTON: A PLANNING PROPOSAL
- On-farm research of buffers and ESA, cover crops, and pest control
cranberries
crop rotation
database
direct seed
diseases
dryland
- Designing an Integrated Livestock-Grain Rotation for the Palouse Region of Washington and Idaho
- Evaluating and Developing Varieties for Organic Systems
ecology
economics
- Propose to teach direct and alternative marketing and sales
- Northwest Direct: Improving Markets for Small Farms - IFAFS grant (2001)
- Impacts of agricultural policy on sustainable agriculture
extension
- Western Washington conferences _ Small Farming in Western Washington (1998), Farm to Table: Coming into the Food Shed (2000)
- Survey (1996) of small and organic farms in the Pacific Northwest to identify research and extension needs
food
goats
grain
grains
- Using dried distillers grains to suppress weeds
- Wheat breeding under certified organic growing conditions
- Sustainability of perennial grain, direct-seed grain, organic grain, and CRP systems
- Washington Tilth survey
granulovirus
immigrant farmers
integrated
- Integrated biological control in glasshouse rose production
- Sustainability of organic, conventional, and integrated apple systems
IPM
- Enhancing Western Orchard Biological Control
- Evaluation of botanical insect control agents
- Four-acre organic block at Wenatchee Valley College (WVC)
- Adjuvants for use in apple orchards and IPM for hybrid poplar plantings
Lacewings
leafrollers
lettuce
livestock
- Grassfed meats and milk
- INTEGRATING LOW-DISTURBANCE ORGANIC GRAIN AND LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION IN THE DRYLAND FARMING REGION OF THE NORTHWEST
markets
meeting
natural
- Northwest Researchers and Harvesters Association & Washington State Department of Natural Resources and Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission
- Management and Marketing of Special Forest Products from Working Forest Lands
natural enemies
- Biological control of the pea aphid (Myzus persicae) in organically grown peas and potatoes in the Pacific Northwest: introduction, environmental assessment, and release of promising new aphid parasitoids for augmentive biological control
- Basic ecology/behavior of aphid predators and parasitoids in greenhouse cut flowers and in potatoes
- Degree-day models for monitoring and timing of control applications
- Natural enemy evaluation and implementation
- Biological control of Russian wheat aphid: introduction, environmental assessment, and release of exotic grain aphid parasitoids for biological control
- Natural enemy banks for the control of aphids in organically grown potatoes
- Aphid natural enemy banks in floricultural glasshouses
- Cereal Leaf Beetle biology, damage and control in Washington
- Conservation and classical biological control of Cherry Bark Tortrix in the PNW
- Biocontrol of pea aphid
nematodes
- Bio-nematicides for management of plant parasitic nematodes in organic apple orchards.
- Evaluate use of entomopathogenic nematodes to control cucumber beetle larvae (corn root worm) in green peas
- Beneficial nematodes for controlling potato pests
nitrogen
- Legume Cover Crops as Nitrogen Sources for Organic Grape Production
- SUSTAINABLE DRYLAND ORGANIC FARMING SYSTEMS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
- Soil ecology and soil quality
- Proposed winter cover crop species effect on N and pest management
nutrients
- Metal availability in phosphate rock
- Manure management: on-farm composting and applications in organic pumpkin production
on-farm
orchards
Organic
organic agriculture
organic alfalfa
organic growers
organic tomatoes
personnel
pesticides
- Evaluation of insecticides from the neem tree as controls of vegetable pests
- Use of oils and particle films as pest control agents
potatoes
- Late blight control on an organic potato farm
- Potato insect research - small portion on organically grown potatoes
- Testing calcium as a natural barrier in potatoes against disease
- Develop and evaluate attractants for monitoring and controling insect pests of agricultural crops including apple, pear, potato, and corn
- Organic on-farm late blight control study in potatoes
- Field evaluation of a new strain of Aphidius colemani against Myzus persicae in potatoes
price
Pythium
research
- Overseeded cover crops for weed control in organic vegetables
- Studies on the biology and epidemiology of fungal pathogens of small fruit crops
- Compost use in orchards
- Document links database
- Soil quality research
seed production
seeds
small fruits
- Evaluation of cranberry genotypes for horticultural traits and reaction to disease and insects
- Organic Management of Raspberry Root Rot
- Soil quality and horticultural performance of organic and biodynamic wine grape production systems
- Suppression of the Orange Tortrix Leafroller and other key leafrollers in organically grown caneberries: natural enemy evaluation and implementation
- Biological control of arthropods in horticulture, specifically hops, grapes and currants
soil acidification
soil organisms
soil properties
soil quality
- Evaluating nutrient and economic value of local organic waste materials
- Compost and dairy manure nutrient management
- Organic Nutrient Management and Water Quality - Washington State University, Puyallup Web Site
- On-farm composting of offal in organic poultry production
- Cover Crops for Weed Management in Organic and Transition Systems
soils
- Use of resident biological resources for the management of replant disease in organic tree fruit production systems
- Organic nutrient management
- Bioavailability of waste constituents in soils
- Predictive Management of Soil Microbial Communities Using Defined Amendments to Enhance Production in Organic Cropping Systems
statistics
Sustainable
- CSANR Organic Program
- Sustainable farming education and demonstration farm (Robin Hill Farm)
- Configuring teaching/research programs to directly support family-based agriculture
- Educational events for organic agriculture
systems
- Comparisons of organic and conventional grain farms in terms of yield, energy efficiency and profit per acre
- Biological control of pea aphid in organic pea cropping systems and organic sweet pea production in the Pacific Northwest
- Intercropping medic (Medicago litoralis) for carrot rust fly control in organically grown carrots
tree fruits
- Establish sampling methods for natural enemies of fruit pests
- Tree fruit pest phenology models
- Evaluate management of cover crops and natural habitats as means of enhancing biological control in orchards
- Understory management for organic orchards
- Mating disruption of codling moth and leafroller for biological control
- Apple Production Without the Input of Neuroactive Insecticides
vegetable
- Proposed production of organic vegetable seed
- Tillage reduction and cover cropping for enhanced soil quality and weed management in western Washington organic vegetable farms (OREI)
- Yield and quality of vegetable crops in conventional and organic production systems
- Winter vegetable production
vegetables
- Organic on-farm pea vine variety trial
- Edamame Variety Trials
- Organic on-farm baby corn variety trials
- Niche market shell bean variety trial
- Evaluate potato and tomato germplasm for late blight resistance
website
- Integrated organic amendment research: nutrients, disease suppression, economics
- Evaluate use of copper hydroxide in organic late blight control
- Evaluate compost tea for control of late blight on potatoes
- Snyder Lab (predator and parasitoid ecology) Web Site
- Model insect and disease development for pest management purposes
- Evaluate use of tomato cages in late blight control
- http://mtvernon.wsu.edu/path_team/vegpath_team.htm
- http://mtvernon.wsu.edu/plant_pathology/plant_path.htm
- Research on alternatives to fumigation for apple replant disease
weed control
- Organic Transition Systems for Weed Management in Eastern Washington
- Organic grain production
- Designing production strategies for stewardship and profits on fresh-market organic farms.
- Alternative Mulches for Weed Control in Vegetable Production Systems
- Organic transition rotations for northwestern Washington
weeds
- Weed control in organic strawberries, including flaming, corn gluten, wheat gluten, and mustardseed meal
- Sustainable cropping systems for irrigated specialty crops and biofuels
- Bio-rational insect and weed management in cranberries
- Weed control in organic vegetable production
- Fruit yield and size decline in organic pear orchards
- Farmscaping with Native Plants
wheat
- Integrated weed management
- N use efficiency in organic wheat
- Integrated biological control of Russian wheat aphid
- Organic Cropping Research for the Northwest
- Weed Management in Organic Dryland Spring Wheat