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What about the adjustment of topkilling on potatoes?
Topkilling is an operation carried out on crops that is intended to destroy the foliage on potatoes before harvest.

PPILOW: a participatory project for the improvement of welfare in pigs
Walloon farmers, stakeholders in the sector and citizens have been consulted in connection with various courses of action and solutions concerning the welfare o

Analysing fodders by brigging the laboratory to the farm
In recent years, instead of moving samples to the laboratory, there is a tendency to take measuring devices directly to the production site

Trajectories of Walloon dairy farmers towards better use of forage resources
Improving the use of forage resources is an important lever to reducing costs in cattle breeding. Various possibilities are available to dairy farmers and involve changes within the...

The CRA-W goes to high-throughput technologies
DNA can inform us about the composition of products and ecosystems. The CRA-W makes it talk by using high-throughput sequencing.

The Catchment Pesticide Diagnosis Unit: a tool for protection of drinking water catchments
The protection of groundwater from human activities is a hot topic. Drinking water standards are seen to be exceeded by Plant Protection Products (PPP) in some Walloon catchments.

Building the future of cattle breeding (milk and meat) in Wallonia
The PROBOV project proposes scenarios, by 2040, relating to the two most important Walloon agricultural productions, milk and beef, which face unprecedented challenges.

EO4AGRI prepares a European capacity for improving operational agriculture monitoring
The CRA-W is involved in the process of reflection on the improvement of agricultural monitoring capabilities of the European system for monitoring the Earth– “COPERNICUS”.

The CRA-W launches its "Ducasse"
In May 2020, the CRA-W received a "Community Plant Variety Protection Certificate" issued by the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO/OCW) for a second apple variety resulting from...

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