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Information Bulletin
Information Bulletin No. 8

Information Bulletin No. 8
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Special features:


The ACAB: USDA's sincere gesture or stalling technique?
by Mary Scott

Organic rootworm control

Irrigation water quality

Scientific Congress moves forward
OFRF-funded project reports:
Controlling flea beetles in brassica crops
Livestock management on organic farms
Mass-trapping cucumber beetles
Nitrate content in organic and conventional leafy vegetables
Testing limestone and mulches to manage fusarium wilt of sweet basil



Information Bulletin No. 7


Special feature:


Global organic trade and the buy local objective: Is there room for both?
by Mark Ritchie

OFRF-funded project reports:
Establishing a beneficial insect plant corridor in an organic vineyard
Finishing beef cattle in a strip cropping system
Grape phylloxera in organic and conventional vineyards
Bird and arthropod predation of codling moth in organic apple orchards
Development of aerated compost teas


Information Bulletin No. 6


Special features:


Keeping our sites fixed
by Richard Rominger

Transgenic crops, pest resistance and the organic grower

OFRF-funded project reports:
Enhancing biological control with beneficial insectary plants
Use of a locally adapted female strain of Trichogramma for supplemental control of codling moth
Examination of the genetic structure of a parasitoid was population
Evaluation of summer cover crops as weed suppressive mulches in vegetables
Controlling weeds in organic crops with flame weeders


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