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10 years of fruitful collaboration with CIPAC
CRA-W is a key player in the international standardisation of pesticide analysis methods

PROTECOW - What lessons after 4 years of research?
For 4 years, the five partners of the INTERREG PROTECOW project have pooled their experience to achieve the objective of increasing nitrogen efficiency in dairy nutrition and profitability...

Satellites to assess the nitrogen status of potatoes
Sentinel-2 satellite and temperature data allow a good assessment of the nitrogen status of the potato crop at the plot scale.

Who does agricultural and environmental data belong to?
Cultivation, breeding, environment: 6 Walloon stakeholders have joined forces to define a framework for data protection and enhancement.

Feedback of a partner of the CRA-W
Chemometric Brain and CRA-W, an essential alliance to apply chemometrics in food quality control

Identifying and responding to the needs of the organic farming sector
An internal tool has been set up as part of the Strategic Plan for the Development of Organic Agriculture (PSDAB) in Wallonia by 2020: FREDO.

The train that forecasts rain
Historically, farmers have worked with weather in mind. In order to help them, CRA-W is launching two new online platforms in support of the agricultural community: agromet.be and...

DECiDE 2.0., a tool for the assessment of greenhouse gases, energy and ammonia on farms
Based on the life cycle analysis (LCA) approach, the DECiDE decision support tool, specific to Wallonia, offers an assessment of energy, greenhouse gases (GHG) and ammonia on farms.

Durum wheat, an opportunity to diversify our major crops?
Changes in the climate (fewer cold winters, spring and summer droughts) provide an opportunity for Walloon farmers to diversify their production by turning to new crops.

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