Dr. Andy Hammermeister is the Director of the Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada (OACC) and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Agriculture at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada.  He has worked with the Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada since 2002, conducting or collaborating in research on grain and vegetable cropping rotations/systems, soil amendments, pesticide risk reduction in soybean, variety trials of soybean, low-till organic production, wheat, lupin and flax, oilseed pumpkin production, wireworm control, dairy production systems, landscape biodiversity, and most recently black currants management.