Another promising end-of-season for early summer fruits
Strawberry and small fruit growing is increasingly becoming a diversification crop for Walloon farmers
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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....
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...
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
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...
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...