Interests

Organic greenhouse vegetable and ornamental productions; greenhouse transplant production for field operations; organic nursery production. Specifically interested in developing and evaluating organic growing substrates, fertilizers and irrigation schedules and systems. For more research interests not related to organic farming, please visit http://www.ces.uoguelph.ca/team-youbin.shtml.

Current Projects

  • Develop Greenhouse Systems for Organic Vegetable and Transplant Production
  • A Feasibility Study of Using Vermicasting Stabilizing Technology in Waste Treatment for the Production of Growth Substrates for Organic Crops
  • Automating & Optimizing Greenhouse Irrigation with State-of-the-Art Sensor Technology

Future Directions

  • Greenhouse Organic Vegetable Production
  • Greenhouse Organic Vegetable Transplants Production
  • Greenhouse Organic Nutraceutical Plant Production
  • Greenhouse Organic Ornamental Production
  • Sustainable/organic Nursery Plant Production

Staff and Grad Students Involved in Organics

Dr. Victoria Surrage - Postdoc
Lingping Wang - Research Assistant
Ping Zhang - Research Assistant
Claudia Lafreniere - MSc. Student