A look at organic farmers ADOPT research projects (May 10) - Organic project funding has been announced through the Agricultural Demonstration of Practices and Technologies system. The federal-provincial program is a part of the Growing Forward initiative. It provides funding to producer groups to evaluate new techniques for use in their regions.

Proper methodology increases credibility of on-farm experiments (May 06) - Farmers conduct a wide range of experiments on their farms every year. Most are done for the farmers' own information and don't require the "blessings of science." However, a few simple techniques from scientific methodology can give an experiment's results more credibility, making it easier to share with scientists, academics and skeptical neighbours.