• Healthy seed: the basis for a healthy crop

  May 6, 2024

  seeds then transmit the disease to the yet-to-be-developed crops in the new season. It is not always immediately apparent to the naked eye whether crops are [...] organic seed treatment How to best protect cereal crops from diseases? For all crops, healthy seed is the basis of a healthy crop. We have a powerful and 100% [...] wheat season. As a result, wheat seeding was often impossible, and growers postponed it. As a result, seedlings emerged later due to lower temperatures

• New parasitic wasp mix detects first signs of aphid infestation

  January 18, 2016

  packaging features a simple hanging system, whereby the sticky outer layer of the label can be used to fix the container around a wire or a plant stem, for [...] are geared to detect and parasitize long before they are visible to the human eye,' explains product manager Tim Bossinga. Scouts Aphiscout is a mix of the [...] example. Valuable solution Product manager Tim Bossinga expects this new product to prove a valuable solution for soft fruit growers at the start of the aphid

• Natutec Drive effective and efficient – ‘a fantastic device’

  December 16, 2020

  types of farm.’ ‘A fantastic device’ The Natutec Drive can be fitted to a mobile undercarriage or moved along a tubular rail system. The new blowing device [...] attached it to a frame that could be pulled behind a tractor? And what if the blowing device could operate vertically as well as horizontally? Accurate to every [...] and harder to recruit enough labour. Natutec Drive allows us to tackle precisely this problem in terms of plant protection. Calculate how many labour hours

• ‘Ornamental plant companies need to innovate more in plant protection’

  August 6, 2021

  bedding plants ten years ago. He looks back for a moment at the type of plant protection used back then. ‘After a couple of years, I came to the conclusion [...] Green'05 decided to switch to integrated pest management in 2012. This was no small task in a company that had so many different crops, a complex and busy [...] exported to the UK. Although it is a relatively small crop for Green'05, the UK market operates a strict zero-tolerance policy. If an inspector were to find

• More and more Finnish growers switch to Natupol Excel

  March 8, 2018

  methods have proven to be an example that many of their fellow growers are now following. ‘In 2016, we were the first in the region to switch to pollination using [...] improved, from 90 to 100 kilograms per square metre. That is partly due to intercropping, but the pollination by the bumblebees was certainly also a contributing [...] good results to report,’ says Patrik Sigg. Together with his brother Tommy, Patrik Sigg owns Sven Sigg AB. Their business is located close to the town of

• Leadership shift at Koppert: René Koppert transitions from CEO to Supervisory Board

  May 1, 2025

  the company is entering a new phase focused on implementation. “Having been closely connected to Koppert for many years, I feel a strong responsibility for [...] company. We are at a pivotal moment in our development, and now is the right time to bring in a CEO from outside the organisation, someone with a fresh perspective [...] an important new chapter in the continued development and long-term growth of the company. Over the past 55 years, Koppert has evolved from a small family-owned

• Koppert partners with Amoéba to launch innovative biofungicide solution

  December 13, 2024

  industrial Greentech company are proud to announce their intention to partner to introduce an innovative biofungicide to the market. This global collaboration [...] opportunity of a close cooperation in areas such as distribution, production, registration, financing and product (co-) development of AXPERA and new biocontrol [...] right partner for a win-win deal”. Martin Koppert, Chief Business Officer of Koppert follows: “We are excited to collaborate with Amoéba to introduce this

• International series ‘Plants for Life, Plants to survive’

  January 25, 2021

  March 2 we continue with a final session on this series ‘Plants for Life, Plants to survive’. In this webinar we will dedicated to resilience. __________ [...] soils, healthy food and healthy people for the last 25 years. ‘When we use a balanced approach to agriculture that includes soil health, the results are [...] their animals. Not to mention that you have an environmental marketing story that consumers like, and food they want to eat. This may sound a bit altruistic

• Koppert acquires Brazilian Geocom to accelerate precision agrifarming

  December 10, 2020

  the field of agricultural technology, Geocom is a pioneer in image geoprocessing and the first to develop an exclusive technology for the application of [...] other subsidiaries around the world.’ ‘We aim to offer the best to our customers and partners. In addition to biological solutions, we will also offer monitoring [...] out. ‘We recognized the need to complement the quality and efficiency of our products with a more specialized application to guarantee the maximum performance

• Predatory mite pioneers: A journey of biocontrol innovations

  October 21, 2024

  Almería, Spain, forced a shift from conventional to biological crop protection methods. “Growers urgently needed a solution to a difficult-to-control thrips species [...] than if we were to search for a new natural enemy for each new challenge. That speed can mean the difference between a successful and a disastrous growing [...] responsibility to find solutions to those challenges as quickly as possible to help prevent and limit crop damage and loss. To achieve this, we developed the most