All the news

• IPM for vegetables: a hot topic
  

  Many newspaper headlines during the recent passing of the European Union’s new ‘pesticides package’ focused on the potentially serious consequences for Europe’s vegetable producers, making ENDURE’s field vegetable case study timely as well as important.

• Brussels date for foresight team
  

  ENDURE’s foresight team will head to Brussels, Belgium, in April to present their study examining European crop protection towards the year 2030 to an invited audience of politicians, legislators and research directors.

• Summer School students revealed
  

  Students from across the globe have been selected for ENDURE's 2009 PhD Summer School, Modelling approaches to support integrated pest management.

• Fusarium strategies for wheat
  

  No wheat farmer wants their crop to be hit hard by the destructive fungal disease Fusarium ear blight. Not only does it reduce yields, but the fungi involved can produce poisons (mycotoxins) dangerous to humans and livestock, and strict legal limits are in place for mycotoxins in grain destined for human consumption and animal feed.

• Spotlight on training
  

  Putting sound science into use is a major challenge in all kinds of fields, not least in farmers’ fields where the gap between everyday farming life and the scientific world can seem particularly large.

• Mobility: providing new opportunities
  

  Developing the skills and knowledge of both its own scientists and those from institutions outside the network is an essential component of ENDURE’s integrating activities, which seek to overcome the fragmented and localised nature of integrated pest management (IPM) research.

• Action needed to speed IPM development
  

  ENDURE is calling for sustained and determined action to promote the design and introduction of new solutions to help develop integrated pest management (IPM) schemes that contribute to sustainable development while keeping European agriculture competitive.

• Tomato guide goes online
  

  A guide devoted to dealing with whiteflies in tomato crops has joined ENDURE's From Science to Field range of leaflets aimed at agricultural advisers and extension services.

• Pesticide regulations get the green light
  

  The European Parliament has approved new European Union pesticides legislation introducing new regulations on the production and licensing of plant production products and introducing new rules on their use.

• Maize: weed control with fewer chemicals
  

  A range of techniques can be used to produce maize using less herbicides, as one of ENDURE’s From Science to Field guides explains.