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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...
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...
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...
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....
Renaturation des berges de cours d'eau et phytoremédiation
Bien que les techniques végétales soient d'application de longue date pour fixer les berges de cours d'eau, elles font maintenant partie d'une réflexion plus générale avec la prise...
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Vérifier la date d'abattage autorisée en fonction des médicaments administrés chez les porcs ! Chaque producteur qui livre des porcs pour l’abattage doit compléter le document « Informations...
