Fertilizers and pesticides

Eugenia Banks of the Ontario Potato Board has created a resource on late blight, updated for the 2021 growing season.

Last year, arable farmer Roelof Kunst gained experience with the predatory mite Neoseiulus californicus, or Spical, as a control agent...

Azoles are widely used as fungicides in arable farming.

The German Union of the Potato Sector (UNIKA) and the University of Applied Sciences Kiel are investigating this question in...

growers to recognize the potential food safety risks associated with the rapidly expanding use of biostimulants and biofertilizers in crop...

Do not rush to judgment on those herbicides, however, if grasses become a problem after potatoes have emerged.

“The damage of Alternaria in potatoes is – certainly in recent years – greater than that of Phytophthora. Most growers have...

Two years ago, a team of potato scientists and researchers from across Canada launched a comprehensive study aimed at reducing...

Blight is the bane of potato growing and experts warn that, long-term, pressure in the UK is only set to...

Yes, that’s phosphite, not phosphate. While it’s chemically similar to the widely used and essential phosphate — the ‘P’ in...

rable farmers are increasingly and earlier encountering the Colorado potato beetle in potato plants.

In the presence of Phytophthora infestation in a potato crop, a stop spraying can be carried out at a short...

The problem of the resistance of the Colorado beetle to the active substances of insecticides of various chemical groups, the...

mancozeb also contains manganese and zinc as an extra added value on top of the fungicidal effect

FAZOR® inhibits germination, reduces sprouting and volunteer potatoes in the following crop. Also in onions ...

Practical aspects of mixing pesticides with fertilizers

Rising temperatures resulting from climate change is exposing more potato crops to the damaging extremes of heat stress more frequently.

Arable farmers would like to reduce the use of crop protection products, but do not have the correct knowledge about...

"We want to use everything we use in terms of resources as balance and efficiently as possible."

In some species and in some crops, pest monitoring requires the use of additional tools. In many cases, their purchase is...

The right time to start spraying is crucial against late blight. Resistance management when using fungicides is also moving more and...

Are they broadening their diet and taking a bite out your potato profits? Ground squirrels and voles cause yield losses...

Due to (global) logistics problems in the supply of raw materials, the supply of various crop protection products is becoming...

new digital tool helps to improve the biological performance of crop protection products in grain, maize, rapeseed, beet and potatoes

Ways fixation might occur naturally or industrially