Projects
The group is currently involved with the following projects:
- Marketing organic products - Joanna Henryks (Postgraduate research student)
- Soil fertility in organic vegetable production - Gunasekhar Nachimuthu (PhD candidate)
- Effect of organic inputs on soil pathogens - Dalvinder Singh (PhD candidate)
- Organic viticulture: economics and agronomics of conversion - Tony Hassall (ProfDoct candidate)
- ‘Clean, green and humane’ lamb production: farmer & consumer dialogue - Sherryl Broderick (MSc candidate)
- Effect of organic amendments on soil quality and profitability in cotton farming systems - Subhadip Ghosh (PhD candidate)
- Sustainable Weed Management in Organic Herb and Vegetable Production - Paul Kristiansen (PhD completed 2003)
- LEAFSE International exchange program (Project completed 2004-05)
- Mechanisms and modes of action of weed interference in soybean (Glycine max) at the physiological, biochemical and cellular levels - Irawati Chaniago (PhD completed 2004)
- The effect of night sowing on the emergence patterns and competitive impact of weeds on buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) - David Van Ryswick (BRurSc Honours completed 2004)
- Brassica cover crops: alellopathy or resource cometition?/Organic acid production by cover crops - Daniele Cerrai, 6 month internship, PhD candidate at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy (Internship completed 2005)
- National Organic Marketing Report - Collaboration with BFA, Organic Knowledge and the Victorian State Government
- Biofertiliser efficacy trials - Van Toan Nguyen