• Integrated crop management: the key to sustainable business operations

  September 13, 2022

  in the future and achieve their goals. What is integrated crop management? ‘Integrated Crop Management’ (ICM) is a holistic approach that takes measures [...] and below ground Implementing an ICM system is quite complex and requires a long-term vision. Your soil is your most important asset: keeping it healthy [...] ground, which is crucial to achieving good, high-quality yields both now and in the future. Or you could say: integrated crop management is the key to s

• Forever Plants: getting closer to the best environment for plants

  April 30, 2020

  how having the right approach is an important key to success. And in 2020, it is also essential that the entire chain is sustainable and cooperates. ‘All [...] supply – beneficials that are better than what any other company is offering, and they also support you. But what really got the ball rolling was their blower [...] the urgency.’ That the end product is made by the entire chain makes perfect sense to Mart van Holsteijn. If your aim is to improve the end product and strengthen

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• Venray: biological control of oak processionary caterpillars

  March 9, 2022

  benefit of Entonem is that nematodes kill fewer other caterpillars , which means they are less harmful to biodiversity. This is something that is high up on the [...] positive. ‘The trees that we have treated have been 90% cleared. What is interesting is that avenues running east to west are typically free of oak pro [...] Municipality of Venray a third of the tree stock in the area, some 11,000 trees, is oak. ‘We’ve been using Koppert’s nematode product Entonem as a curative measure

• Whitefly

  the excess is excreted as honeydew, with larger larvae expelling large quantities. This can have the following consequences: If the population is very large [...] the fruit, and the growth of sooty moulds ( Cladosporium spp.) is encouraged. Such fruit is unsaleable. In serious cases the fruit will rot. Sooty moulds [...] to honeydew deposits that reduce crop quality. Effective whitefly control is essential to maintain healthy, productive crops and prevent the spread of

• High-tech insect production

  January 11, 2021

  how should the layout and logistics routing be designed? What is needed to rear insects and what central facilities are required for this purpose?’ Jansen [...] ‘Cooled air is generated sustainably by heat pumps,’ he adds. ‘This cooled air is transferred to the rearing units. The resulting low-grade heat is transferred [...] (sometimes several groups). The water that is used to clean the cages is collected separately and recycled. Koppert is also a member of the Rainlevelr programme

• Flies

  growing media, while adults can cause contamination. Effective fly control is essential to maintain healthy and high-quality crops. Biological control of [...] sustainable growing conditions. Solutions for fly control Learn more about What are flies? There are several flies that are pests in agriculture, horticulture [...] greenhouses. Their larvae live in the ground and prefer moist substrates that is rich in organic matter. Although they cause little direct damage to plants

• Visit Koppert Outdoor Experience Centre to discover the potential of biocontrol for outdoor crops

  May 30, 2023

  Centre is a visit to a business, not a testing ground,’ says Koen de Bruycker, owner of De Bruycker Agro in Dronten, the Netherlands. ‘It is in our best [...] To achieve this, it is important that more growers, partners in the value chain and people with ties to politics experience what biological crop protection [...] and De Bruycker Agro, will open to the public on May 30. De Bruycker Agro is a fully operational 100-hectare farm specialised in both organic and conventional

• Thrips

  crop quality and productivity. Solutions for thrips control Learn more about What are thrips? Several species of thrips are a major problem in greenhouse [...] horticulture. The Western flower thrips ( Frankliniella occidentalis ) is the most damaging species. Thrips form the order Thysanoptera, a name that literally [...] become desiccated and the adjacent cells turn brown. The vigour of the plant is also reduced by loss of chlorophyll. With a serious infestation the leaves

• How a little predatory mite laid the foundation for biocontrol today

  June 11, 2024

  to research stations in the UK and eventually Switzerland where he found what he was looking for - the predatory mite Phytoseiulus persimilis .’ Back home [...] cucumber crop and soon neighbour growers and others became curious about what he was doing in his greenhouse. At first they were sceptical, but after repeated [...] integrated pest management strategies. Now that the third Koppert generation is running the company, they are more committed to finding innovative biological