Detecting heat in cows
To ensure profitability, a cow has to calve once a year. Each missed cycle impacts directly on the farmer’s income. Detecting heat in order to carry out insemination is therefore vital....
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Redevelopment of Wallonia’s industrial hemp industry
After several decades of neglect, industrial hemp growing is making a come-back in Wallonia, with a few hectares under cultivation since 2006. CRA-W is playing a part in this resurgence,...
New feeding strategies for super-efficient dairy cows
High nutritional quality milk can be compatible with a sustainable production method that gives the farmer a decent income and also manages environmental constraints.
The transfer of micro propagation technology– a success story Between CRA-W and Nunhems (Bayer)
December 2013 - CRA-W and its Life Sciences department successfully developed and transferred a complete micro propagation technology to Nunhems, the vegetable seeds business of Bayer...
Aiming for accuracy
GPS has been a feature of our farms for several years now and is used as an aid to machine movements.
Another promising end-of-season for early summer fruits
Strawberry and small fruit growing is increasingly becoming a diversification crop for Walloon farmers
Looking ahead to reduce herbicide use
Bindweed, silky apera, wild oats ... don’t they have pretty names, those weeds that gardeners and farmers struggle so hard to control! They compete mercilessly with cultivated plants....
Interrogating the air and the rain in order to understand wheat diseases
Like pollen, wheat pathogenic fungus spores are microscopic propagules that can take to the air in order to disperse. Little is known about their aerial travel and so, until now, predictive...
Solving the mysteries of the orange wheat blossom midge (Sitodiplosis mosellana)
Between mid-April and mid-June the adult orange wheat blossom midges – tiny little midges – emerge in the fields in one or more waves. Having been fertilized, the females fly off in...
Integrated pest management: when growers become strategists
Slugs, weeds, fungi, insects, bacteria, rodents,… : cultivated plants have to contend with lots of pests. The aim of integrated pest management is not to eradicate them but to keep...