VSSE interim balance: Heat summer 2022 ensures particularly tasty asparagus vintage
The asparagus season started early, but the growth of asparagus was initially somewhat slowed down by the cool and rainy April. Despite moderate temperatures, there have been no maximum quantities

Blueberries after frost. How to regenerate plants in one season?
After two consecutive nights of frost, hardly any green leaves remained on the shrubs. The plants looked as if they were after a fire. The dominant colour was black and a drab atmosphere. The

“A perfect storm” helps push green bean prices sky high
Supplies of green beans are really light and have pushed prices up to a reported 10-year high. Why? “It’s the perfect storm,” says Tony Martinez of Primo Trading Services LLC. That started

Delphy launches Delphy Germany
With the launch of Delphy Germany, Delphy has set itself the goal of further expanding its market share in Germany. In Germany, Delphy is active in the areas of soft fruit, ornamental plants,

An important time to protect blueberries is coming - the weather will be favourable for diseases. Watch out for pests!
Blueberries in field crops are either before flowering or at the beginning of flowering, depending on the variety and region. This period is very important in terms of protecting the plants

Vitalis subscribes its capital to Turenne Groupe and Nord Capital Partenaires
This operation comes five years after the capitalist grouping of the BILLAUT, BATEMAN, COO, LECONTE and LORIDAN families, which marked the creation of the VITALIS Network, around the company

Drought, 2.2 billion funds in Spain
Spain can count on EUR 2.19 billion in anti-drought funds. The figure was allocated by the decree-law approved by the Spanish Council of Ministers last week. Of the total amount, as reported by Il

Venezuela: Fusarium threatens banana and plantain crops
Venezuela faces a new threat as Fusarium tropical race 4 infects banana and plantain crops. According to a United Nations assessment, the country is already dealing with an economic catastrophe,

“We choose our varieties carefully so they can really answer the need of our clients”
Niewczas Strawberry Plant Nursery, a family-driven company, has over 40 years of experience in cultivating strawberry plants. The nursery is in the mid-northern part of Poland in the village of

New fertiliser for blueberries. Why use it?
An experiment with Polysulfate fertiliser was set up on a plot with the Duke variety. The plants, after a rather strong hailstorm in 2021, regenerated the damage and produced quite a lot of new

Pathogen-free nursery stock - how to prevent and deal with infections?
Many growers and nurserymen face the problem of plant pathogens. Threats can originate from water, plants or soil. This is where the microorganisms that cause dangerous and difficult-to-control

Spanish government to spend 2.2 bln euros combating impact drought
Sources say the Spanish government plans to spend 2.19 billion euros ($2.4 billion) on new water supplies, subsidies, and direct aid to farmers. The aid has become necessary to alleviate a

Excess soil salinity, Italy goes to school from Israel
Italy is looking to Israel not only for an increasingly efficient use of water, with state-of-the-art irrigation systems, but also to solve the problem of the effect of excessive soil salinity on

Northeast Spain faced with crippling drought
A massive drought in Catalonia is forcing this northeast region of Spain to turn to water rationing, seawater desalination and recycling effluent from sewage treatment plants. Last year reservoirs

Raspberries 2023 - Fertilizers for a good start
On raspberry plantations that are being established now, but also on those that are growing, it is worth taking care of a strong root system. How can it be strengthened and how to feed the plants

Blueberry in bloom (monitoring of plantations, Lublin region 09.05.2023)
The phenological phase of highbush blueberry plants was determined for three cultivars of different earliness: 'Duke' (early), 'Bluecrop' (medium) and 'Last Call' (late) on a plantation located in

Nursery production, QVI label improves orchard quality
"Only with higher quality plants will the new plantings by Italian (and other) fruit growers be able to guarantee the desired economic results; the QVI mark (Qualità Vivaistica Italia)

Tesco announces peat-free pledge for bedding plants
Tesco is reported to have become the first UK retailer to cut out peat on its British-grown bedding plants. The move is aimed at reducing the retailer’s carbon footprint, and involves teaming up

Gene-editing trial reaches potatoes
Researcher Daniel Moñino-López of Wageningen University (Netherlands) has used this technique to modify resistance genes susceptible to late blight (downy mildew) by genetic variants in wild

“By growing our own mother plants, we can keep our entire chain virus-free”
Ireland is renowned as the land of potatoes, and nowadays also, a great part of the sweet potatoes eaten in Europe have Irish roots. From their greenhouse and propagation laboratory, Beotanics

Strawberry plantations after frost - losses already visible!
Most of the plantations on the farm of Magdalena and Mateusz Włodarczyk were covered for the frost period with a 23 g/m2 agro-fleece from Agrimpex (read also). And all the luck. We went to a part

Our tropical fruits are vulnerable to climate change. Can we make them resilient in time?
Plants provide almost every calorie of food we eat. Grains like rice, wheat and corn make civilisation possible. For millennia, farmers have bred grains, fruit and vegetable varieties to get

Beneficial nematodes ‘have major role in pest control fight’
Sustainable crop protection business Koppert has extolled the benefits of beneficial nematodes for biological pest control. While plant parasitic nematodes are a common soil pest that affects