Fertilizers and pesticides

According to French researchers, tripling organic farms by 2030 costs less than subsidising pesticides

A Sinn Féin MEP has questioned the European Commission, members of which attended a sitting of the European Parliament Agricultural...

ABP’s Port of Ipswich is bucking the trend and seeing record amounts arrive at its shores.

During the event, one farmer asked: “Can a soil test help determine the need for a fungicide application, and does...

The results on the main BASF trial field with Allstar confirm the positive results of previous seasons. But the fungicide's benefits...

economists expect high input prices to persist through spring.

The US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s chip potato industry absorbs annually almost 83,000 tons of primarily white spuds, locally produced. To...

The economy is raising more than just prices as farmers question how to manage fertilizer investments in 2022. For Helena...

In an op-ed written by NCGA CEO Jon Doggett, he says fertilizer executives are bringing in climbing profits at the...

Growers want processors to offer higher prices to compensate for increased fertiliser costs.

Growing shortages of crop protection and sharply rising prices are signs of the next supply crisis.

The fertilizer prices are at a record level. Still, there is nothing to buy. What can farmers do? Strategies and their consequences Farmers...

A lot of potatoes are coming out of the ground this fall covered in warty-looking growths. But the good news...

BASF Canada Agricultural Solutions has received registration from Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) for Veltyma™ Fungicide. Veltyma contains the...

Pragati, Koraput with International Potato Center (CIP), Bhubaneswar and Government of Odisha, have initiated Potato cultivation in Koraput district of...

A major new project will tackle pests in potatoes through the protection of clean land and the management of land...

An annual inspection of buildings and hardware is an important step in store preparation before the new potato crop can...

Not all robust potato varieties will survive this year when it comes to phytophthora resistance

In its newsletter from the beginning of this week, the Research Center for Potato Cultivation PCA and Inagro discussed the...

Wire needles are a growing problem in potatoes. In more and more places damage is found in the crops in the...

The sanitary strategy begins with the soil work and the choice of the potato variety. It is convenient to analyze possible...

Potato growers on P.E.I. are turning to technology to help them track spores from late blight and other airborne diseases...

Soil fertilization does not always guarantee full availability of nutrients. Therefore, it is fully justified to supplement it with foliar feeding....

In the progeny of the large haulm killing trial that Delphy carried out last year in potato seed potatoes, it...

 The presence of the Colorado potato beetle on a potato field is quite a challenge. Especially for the organic grower, who...

Colorado Potato Beetle (CPB) is still the number one insect pest of potatoes around the world. It’s a formidable enemy;...

The infamous pathogen Phytophthora infestans caused famine in Ireland and other parts of Western Europe in the 19th century and...

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...