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CRA-W info n°70
Autumn 2021

PROTECOW - What lessons after 4 years of research?
For 4 years, the five partners of the INTERREG PROTECOW project have pooled their experience to achieve the objective of increasing nitrogen efficiency in dairy nutrition and profitability...

Will we see weeding robots in the fields?
The CRA-W evaluates the possibilities of robotisation and automation of mechanical weed control. Are these technologies mature and suitable for vegetable farming in Wallonia?

On the road to sustainable dairy farming
The R4D (Resilience For Dairy) project is one of the most recent initiatives supported by the European Union in the dairy cattle sector.

Satellites to assess the nitrogen status of potatoes
Sentinel-2 satellite and temperature data allow a good assessment of the nitrogen status of the potato crop at the plot scale.

Sensors serving sugar beet health in breeding trials
For the Beetphen project, various sensors were tested by CRA-W and VITO, both on the ground and in the air, on the trials inoculated and set up by SES-VANDERHAVE, in order to assess...

Birthday of Walloon Agricultural Research Centre
150 years at the service of agriculture & society

Feedback of a partner of the CRA-W
Chemometric Brain and CRA-W, an essential alliance to apply chemometrics in food quality control

Identifying and responding to the needs of the organic farming sector
An internal tool has been set up as part of the Strategic Plan for the Development of Organic Agriculture (PSDAB) in Wallonia by 2020: FREDO.