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Aiming for accuracy
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Aiming for accuracy

GPS has been a feature of our farms for several years now and is used as an aid to machine movements.


Gaëtan DUBOIS
Dubois, G.
Another promising end-of-season for early summer fruits
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Another promising end-of-season for early summer fruits

Strawberry and small fruit growing is increasingly becoming a diversification crop for Walloon farmers


Stéphanie FARVACQUE
Farvacque, S.
Looking ahead to reduce herbicide use
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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....


François HENRIET
Henriet, F.
Interrogating the air and the rain in order to understand wheat diseases
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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...


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Solving the mysteries of the orange wheat blossom midge (Sitodiplosis mosellana)
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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...


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Integrated pest management: when growers become strategists
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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...


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Grazing on lucerne: happiness is in the field
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Grazing on lucerne: happiness is in the field

A pasture plant that’s economical, environmentally friendly and good for health? CRA-W says “Yes !” to grazing on lucerne


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Utilising green gold and brown gold on our farms
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Utilising green gold and brown gold on our farms

Following a question from a nature parc on how it can support its farming in the face of rising input prices, the level of utilisation of home-grown fodder resources and farmyard manure...


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Potential of Soil Microbial Activity Stimulants in Pasture
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Potential of Soil Microbial Activity Stimulants in Pasture

Pasture accumulates large amounts of organic matter in the top soil horizon. Although this plays a positive part to mitigate CO2 concentrations increase in the atmosphere, it may be...


Yves SEUTIN
Seutin, Y.
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