The Western Producer: Filtering seed guide information for organic farms

Organic producers continue to be at the mercy of recommendations and results from conventional variety testing.

That’s according to Michelle Carkner, a research associate in the natural systems agriculture department at the University of Manitoba and speaker at the recent Advancing Organics conference in Saskatoon.

“Organic farmers are under a lot more pressure than conventional,” she said. “But the data that is shared in the Seed Manitoba guides are all under conventional management, so then we have to think independently of, ‘What combination of plant traits do we want in the organic system?’”

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