Crop Protection
Deal is part of Lavie Bio’s strategy to cooperate with the world’s leading agritech companies, enabling its products to reach farmers worldwide.
Website managed by inter-governmental non-profit group CABI packs a trove of biocontrol education, research, and treatment recommendations, all for free.
When asked about the most problematic pest problems this past season, wildlife and diseases actually edge out insects.
Why spraying for this plant pathogen doesn’t help.
Producers spent 2022 battling many nuisances, including fire blight, spotted wing drosophila, birds, and deer. Some succeeded. Some didn’t.
New California sustainability plan calls for growers to minimize use of crop protection chemicals. Leaders gather at Salinas Biological Summit to discuss.
Recent rain events have brown rot on the rise. NC State Extension specialist David Ritchie has guidance for growers in the fight.
Under his leadership, along with brother Paul and their cousin Henri, Koppert grew into the pioneering global market leader it is today.
It’s back again. Detection of the giant mollusk with an appetite to match prompts quarantine in parts of Broward County.
The site from Emerging Viruses in Cucurbits Working Group includes images and key facts about new viruses for your English- and Spanish-speaking crews.
Researchers identify potential genes that could be introduced to enhance resistance to Xylella fastidiosa, the bacterium that causes Pierce’s Disease.
Acetamiprid insecticide applied at a one-quarter rate fares well in 2022 UCCE trial.
Researchers caution the same ultraviolet technology used to control twospotted spider mite also can damage eggs of beneficial mites.
Managing weeds without herbicides is a challenge. Learn how Burroughs Family Orchards in California is succeeding in its approach.
Researchers say rare plant disease outbreak of Phytophthora syringae similar to El Niño-influenced events during the 1990s.
Although there are not yet any confirmed positives for tomato brown rugose fruit virus on seeds that have been deployed to date, precautions being taken.
Why might fumigated strawberry fields still be susceptible to the disease? The answer could be blowing in the wind.
The emerald ash borer has been a bane to trees in the East and Midwest for many years. Folks out west now are warned to watch for this destructive insect.
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