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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.
MERINOVA: extreme weather events as innovation factors
Climate change has become a tangible reality affecting all of the world’s population and ecosystems at different levels. These changes are also accompanied by increased occurrence...
Spotlight on potato late blight:
Whereas the initial stages of an infection are determined by the quality of the immune response, successful tissue invasion depends on access to the host’s nutritional resources.
Strip-till, half-way between ploughing and no-till
Tilling only where the crop will be sown looks like an attractive compromise for Wallonia’s farmers.
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...
Another promising end-of-season for early summer fruits
Strawberry and small fruit growing is increasingly becoming a diversification crop for Walloon farmers
Aiming for accuracy
GPS has been a feature of our farms for several years now and is used as an aid to machine movements.
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...
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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