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Project Results
| Organic
Farming Systems |
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| OFRF-funded organic
farming systems
project reports:
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| Investigator |
State |
Awarded |
$ |
System |
| |
Project title |
| Mazourek, M. |
NY |
2009 |
$14,953 |
cucumbers, squash, melons |
| |
Trialing and seed increase of promising new vegetable varieties for organic systems |
| Tracy, W. |
WI |
2008 |
$14,795 |
sweet corn |
| |
Participatory plant breeding to improve sweet corn for organic farmers |
| Colley, M. |
WA |
2008 |
$13,614 |
vegetables (carrots, lettuce, beets) |
| |
Production guides for organic carrot, lettuce and beet seed |
| Fernandez-Salvador, L. |
FL |
2008 |
$7,304 |
Florida-grown organic products |
| |
The perisistence of Florida's small organic farms |
| Colley, M. |
WA |
2007 |
$11,834 |
vegetables |
| |
Establishing breeding populations for organic broccoli, sweet corn and red kale varieties |
| Schonbeck, M. |
VA |
2004 |
$8,600 |
vegetables |
| |
Evaluation
of frost-killed cover crop mulches for organic no-till production
of spring vegetables on small farms |
| Carey, T. |
KS |
2004 |
$16,000 |
vegetables |
| |
Fresh and postharvest assessment of nutritional quality of organically-
and conventionally-grown lettuce and other salad greens |
| Jones, S. |
WA |
2004 |
$33,472 |
wheat |
| |
Development
of wheat varieties for organic farmers (Funded over 3 years:
2002, 2003, 2004. Yr3 report) |
| Athearn, K. |
FL |
2003 |
$6,500 |
citrus |
| |
The Florida
organic citrus sector: results of a 2003-2004 survey |
| Finney, D. |
NC |
2003 |
$6,100 |
vegetables |
| |
Sorghum-sudangrass
as a cover crop for organic no-till vegetable production and
as a hey crop for the organic market |
| Muramoto, J. |
CA |
2003 |
$9,342 |
strawberries/vegetables |
| |
Maintaining
agroecosystem health in an organic strawberry/vegetable rotation
system |
| Nissen, T. |
NE |
2003 |
$5,385 |
grapes |
| |
Nebraska organically
grown grapes |
| Rom, C. |
CO |
2002 |
$12,942 |
apples |
| |
Organic apple
thinning strategies (yrs 1 and 2) |
| Carr, P. |
ND |
2001 |
$7,706 |
small grains |
| |
Small grain cultivar
selection for organic systems |
| Hoyt, G. |
NC |
2001 |
$5,157 |
vegetables |
| |
Long term vegetable
rotation systems using organic production methods and conservation
tillage |
| Kelly |
MO |
2001 |
$5,835 |
vegetables |
| |
Shade-covered
high tunnels for summer production of lettuce and leafy greens |
| Poudel, D. |
LA |
2001 |
$6,800 |
vegetables |
| |
Participatory
evaluation and demonstration of organic production systems in
southwest Louisiana |
| Rzewnicki, P. |
OH |
2000 |
$8,280 |
corn |
| |
Corn variety
performance trials for Ohio organic farmers |
| Clark, S. |
KY |
1999 |
$1,100 |
compost |
| |
Development
of a biologically integrated food waste composting system |
| Goldstein, W. |
WI |
1999 |
$8,800 |
corn |
| |
Developing
open-pollinated corn varieties for organic farmers |
| Kremen, C. |
CA |
1999 |
$8,000 |
pollination |
| |
Conserving
and restoring pollination services in organic farms in northern
California |
| Lappe, M. |
CA |
1998 |
$5,710 |
nutrition |
| |
Phytoestrogen
content of conventionally and organically grown soybeans |
| Muramoto, J. |
CA |
1997 |
$4,545 |
spinach, lettuce |
| |
Comparison
of nitrate content in leafy vegetables from organic and conventional
farms in California |
| Frantzen, T. |
IA |
1995 |
$500 |
hazelnuts |
| |
Farm diversification with hazelnut bushes |
| Klonsky, K. |
CA |
1995 |
$4,600 |
california organic |
| |
Statistical
review of California's organic agriculture |
| Haapala, J. |
OR |
1994 |
$3,600 |
vegetables |
| |
Plant mobilization of trace organochlorine
residues in vegetable cropping systems |
| Reganold, J. |
WA |
1994 |
$3,420 |
apples |
| |
On-farm analyses
of soils, crop performance, and profitability in organic, integrated
and conventional apple production systems |
| Cornwoman, M. |
WA |
1993 |
$3,990 |
apples |
| |
Organic
apple production in Washington state: A 1994 survey of growers |
| Swezey, S. |
CA |
1993 |
$4,717 |
cotton |
| |
Farm-level conversion of a conventional
cotton production system to organic management - transition
phase |
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