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四月 19, 2018
UPEI Precision Agriculture Project focused on Potato Inputs gets boost
A five year research project to develop precision agriculture ('smart') technologies for the use of inputs in potato farming at the University of Prince Edward Island's School of Sustainable Design Engineering received support from NSERC Sponsored Content
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十二月 11, 2017
Certis USA Licenses New Virus Technology for Control of Fall Armyworm
Certis USA has entered into an agreement with Corpoica, the Colombian Corporation for Agriculture Research, to license Corpoica’s Spodoptera frugiperda nucleopolyhedrovirus (SfMNPV) strain NPV003 and formulation technology for a biopesticide against the fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda).From the archive

八月 05, 2017
New Wisconsin State laws force potato growers to apply best practices
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed two new measures involving the potato industry last Wednesday. One law makes use of certified seed potatoes mandatory, the other enforces a faster response to the presence of late blightFrom the archive

六月 27, 2017
To protect crops, farmers could promote potato beetle cannibalism
UMaine scientists say farmers could try to protect their potato crop by utilizing agricultural practices — including crop rotations and push-pull strategies — to create field conditions that favor Colorado potato beetle cannibalism.From the archive

五月 07, 2017
Dicamba drift a new danger for potato growers
Soybean producers are gearing up to plant soybeans that are tolerant to both glyphosate and dicamba herbicides. Potato growers should be aware that both glyphosate and dicamba drift can cause irreparable damage in neighbouring potato cropsFrom the archive

四月 27, 2017
Colombia: Equipo que aplica plaguicidas a cultivos de papa recibe patente
La invención, desarrollada por la Universidad Nacional de Colombia (U.N.), aplica plaguicidas convencionales y biológicos por debajo del suelo para controlar el gusano blanco y la polilla guatemalteca, dos de las plagas más comunes en estos cultivos.From the archive











