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.
- Evaluate Native American Potatoes for Late Blight Resistance
- Identify Disease Predictors for Late Blight Forecasting for Western Washington Organic Potato Production
- Organic seed production and seed quality
- Organic Disease Control Methods in High Tunnel Systems
alternatives
- Alternative methods for controlling plant disease including chitosan and copper
- Composting process and utilization
- Sudangrass production and quality
- Organic on-farm bamboo variety trials for shoot/pole production in the Pacific Northwest
- Composting and utilization
- Organic on-farm late blight control study in potatoes
- Agricultural use of yard trimmings
aphid
aphids
apple
- WSU IPM Decision Aid System for Tree Fruits
- Income risk assessment of organic apple production in the Pacific Northwest
- Rose Habitats to Enhance Leafroller Biological Control in Pome Fruits
arugula
biocontrol
bionematicides
breeding
- Evaluate pea germplasm for pea cyst nematode resistance
- Integrating cultivar, soil and environment to develop regional value-added wheat crops with enhanced nutritional value
- Developing wheat varieties for organic agricultural systems
certification
- Organic certification education for extension agents and new farmers
- Alternative agriculture workshop series, Centralia Community College (1996-1999)
- Training of farmers and extension agents on organic certification
cherry
codling moths
Colorado potato beetle
- Augmentation and Conservation of Insect-Attacking Nematodes and Fungi to Improve Insect Control in Pacific Northwest Potatoes
- Microbial control of potato tuber moth and other insect pests of potato
compost
- Compost Education and Resources for Western Agriculture (CERWA)
- Control of Xanthomonas in Cabbage Seed
composting
cover crop
- Growing nitrogen in the organic orchard
- Assessing effects of an alfalfa cover crop on biological control and tree nutrition in organic pear orchards.
- PLANT BREEDING AND AGRONOMIC RESEARCH FOR ORGANIC HOP PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
- Cover crops for N supply for organic grape management
- Plant breeding and agronomic research for organic hop production systems
- Assessing Soil Quality in Intensive Organic Management Systems
- Nitrogen Supply and Partitioning in Managed Understories of Organic Apples
cover crops
- Winter cover cropping and soil and water quality
- On-farm research of buffers and ESA, cover crops, and pest control
- NO-TILL ORGANIC VEGETABLE PRODUCTION IN WESTERN WASHINGTON: A PLANNING PROPOSAL
- Cover cropping systems for potatoes, including biofumigation using green manures
cranberries
crop rotation
database
diseases
dryland
- Evaluating and Developing Varieties for Organic Systems
- Designing an Integrated Livestock-Grain Rotation for the Palouse Region of Washington and Idaho
ecology
economics
- Comparisons of organic and conventional grain farms in terms of yield, energy efficiency and profit per acre
- Northwest Direct: Improving Markets for Small Farms - IFAFS grant (2001)
- Impacts of agricultural policy on sustainable agriculture
- Western Washington conferences _ Small Farming in Western Washington (1998), Farm to Table: Coming into the Food Shed (2000)
extension
- Washington Tilth survey
- Propose to teach direct and alternative marketing and sales
- Survey (1996) of small and organic farms in the Pacific Northwest to identify research and extension needs
food
grain
grains
- Sustainability of perennial grain, direct-seed grain, organic grain, and CRP systems
- Wheat breeding under certified organic growing conditions
grape
immigrant farmers
integrated
- Integrated biological control in glasshouse rose production
- Sustainability of organic, conventional, and integrated apple systems
IPM
- Adjuvants for use in apple orchards and IPM for hybrid poplar plantings
- Evaluation of botanical insect control agents
- Four-acre organic block at Wenatchee Valley College (WVC)
leafrollers
leafy greens
livestock
- Grassfed meats and milk
- INTEGRATING LOW-DISTURBANCE ORGANIC GRAIN AND LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION IN THE DRYLAND FARMING REGION OF THE NORTHWEST
markets
meeting
natural enemies
- Natural enemy evaluation and implementation
- Basic ecology/behavior of aphid predators and parasitoids in greenhouse cut flowers and in potatoes
- Cereal Leaf Beetle biology, damage and control in Washington
- 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
- Degree-day models for monitoring and timing of control applications
- Biological control of Russian wheat aphid: introduction, environmental assessment, and release of exotic grain aphid parasitoids for biological control
- Conservation and classical biological control of Cherry Bark Tortrix in the PNW
- Biocontrol of pea aphid
- Natural enemy banks for the control of aphids in organically grown potatoes
- Aphid natural enemy banks in floricultural glasshouses
nematodes
- Bio-nematicides for management of plant parasitic nematodes in organic apple orchards.
- Beneficial nematodes for controlling potato pests
nitrogen
- N use efficiency in organic wheat
- Proposed winter cover crop species effect on N and pest management
- Soil ecology and soil quality
- Legume Cover Crops as Nitrogen Sources for Organic Grape Production
nutrients
- Metal availability in phosphate rock
- Manure management: on-farm composting and applications in organic pumpkin production
on-farm
orchards
organic agriculture
peas
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
- Field evaluation of a new strain of Aphidius colemani against Myzus persicae in 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
- Late blight control on an organic potato farm
- Potato insect research - small portion on organically grown potatoes
price
research
- Compost use in orchards
- Studies on the biology and epidemiology of fungal pathogens of small fruit crops
- Overseeded cover crops for weed control in organic vegetables
- Soil quality research
- Document links database
root maggot
seed
seed quality
seeds
sheep
small fruits
- Biological control of arthropods in horticulture, specifically hops, grapes and currants
- Evaluation of cranberry genotypes for horticultural traits and reaction to disease and insects
- Soil quality and horticultural performance of organic and biodynamic wine grape production systems
- Organic Management of Raspberry Root Rot
- Suppression of the Orange Tortrix Leafroller and other key leafrollers in organically grown caneberries: natural enemy evaluation and implementation
soil acidification
soil organisms
soil properties
soil quality
- Compost and dairy manure nutrient management
- Cover Crops for Weed Management in Organic and Transition Systems
- On-farm composting of offal in organic poultry production
- Evaluating nutrient and economic value of local organic waste materials
- Organic Nutrient Management and Water Quality - Washington State University, Puyallup Web Site
soils
- Predictive Management of Soil Microbial Communities Using Defined Amendments to Enhance Production in Organic Cropping Systems
- Organic nutrient management
- Use of resident biological resources for the management of replant disease in organic tree fruit production systems
- Bioavailability of waste constituents in soils
statistics
strawberry
Sustainable
- Educational events for organic agriculture
- Configuring teaching/research programs to directly support family-based agriculture
- Sustainable farming education and demonstration farm (Robin Hill Farm)
- CSANR Organic Program
systems
- 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
- Integrated weed management
tree fruits
- Understory management for organic orchards
- Evaluate management of cover crops and natural habitats as means of enhancing biological control in orchards
- Establish sampling methods for natural enemies of fruit pests
- Apple Production Without the Input of Neuroactive Insecticides
- Mating disruption of codling moth and leafroller for biological control
- Tree fruit pest phenology models
vegetable seeds
vegetables
- Organic on-farm pea vine variety trial
- Niche market shell bean variety trial
- Edamame Variety Trials
- Organic on-farm baby corn variety trials
- Evaluate potato and tomato germplasm for late blight resistance
watermelon
website
- Evaluate compost tea for control of late blight on potatoes
- 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
- Model insect and disease development for pest management purposes
- Evaluate use of copper hydroxide in organic late blight control
- Snyder Lab (predator and parasitoid ecology) Web Site
- Research on alternatives to fumigation for apple replant disease
- Integrated organic amendment research: nutrients, disease suppression, economics
weed control
- Alternative Mulches for Weed Control in Vegetable Production Systems
- Designing production strategies for stewardship and profits on fresh-market organic farms.
- Using dried distillers grains to suppress weeds
- Weed Management in Organic Dryland Spring Wheat
- SUSTAINABLE DRYLAND ORGANIC FARMING SYSTEMS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
- Organic transition rotations for northwestern Washington
weeds
- Weed control in organic vegetable production
- Bio-rational insect and weed management in cranberries
- Fruit yield and size decline in organic pear orchards
- Farmscaping with Native Plants
- Organic Cropping Research for the Northwest
wheat
- Weed control in organic strawberries, including flaming, corn gluten, wheat gluten, and mustardseed meal
- Organic grain production
- Integrated biological control of Russian wheat aphid
Wild Edibles
- 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