With Wursixo and Wuranda, Dutch breeding company Fresh Forward introduces two new early-ripening apple varieties with a resistance against scab. Both varieties have SQ159 – better-known… Read More »Fresh Forward introduces Wursixo and Wuranda
Slovenian manufacturer PeK Automotive developed the electrically powered autonomous robot Slopehelper for fruit growing and viniculture. Due to the various available also electrically powered attachments and… Read More »General purpose autonomous electric robot
The fugus Neofabraea, better-known under its old name Gloeosporium, is the most important cause of bull’s eye rot in apple in Northwest Europe. In pear… Read More »Bull’s eye rot in pears
During the past couple of years, ever more extremely hot days have occurred – with the accompanying damage caused by sunburn. Fruit growers with a sprinkler… Read More »Nebulising trees to cool
Dutch pear grower Marc van den Oever wants to start growing the Abate Fetel pear variety in the Netherlands and Belgium. For years now, Abate… Read More »1,000 ha of Abate Fetel in the Netherlands and Belgium
Attention for Wurtwinning and Iori during Güttinger-TagungEvery year, Swiss research institute Agroscope organises an open day at the Güttingen fruit growing trial farm on Lake… Read More »Attention for Wurtwinning and Iori during Güttinger-Tagung
The EFM October edition is now available as a PDF.In this edition among other things: – Reduction of plant protection products– How to react to… Read More »EFM2024-10 now available (download)
In 2023, Dutch consumers ate slightly more apples than the year before, GroentenFruit Huis, the branch organisation for trading companies in fruits and vegetables, has… Read More »The Dutch are eating slightly more apples again
With 77 million euros, the EU supports fruit growers and winegrowers hit by spring frosts from Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria and Portugal. The money… Read More »77 million of EU aid for spring frost damage
During the past couple of years, the quality characteristics of apple varieties with low susceptibility to scab have reached the level of the best varieties… Read More »Increasingly scab resistant club varieties planted
