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While there is undeniable merit in being able to find quick and effective cures for specific pest problems in a particular crop, ENDURE is in the fortunate position of also being able to take a broader view, examining entire cropping systems using a variety of scientific disciplines.
ENDURE’s group dedicated to training has two events coming up. On Wednesday April 1 the Danish Agricultural Advisory Service, the ENDURE member which advises farmers in Denmark, will be staging a half-day course on the identification, biology and management of grass weeds in the town of Herning.
The important role agricultural science plays in feeding the world has been emphasised in a new publication in the UK, and coincides with a strong push to encourage more students into the sector.
Can you imagine a world where a farmer automatically receives a warning each time a potential problem is detected in his fields? Or where the potential threat this may pose is automatically calculated making decision-making simple? And, when action is needed, can you imagine the farmer being able to spray just a tiny amount of pesticide directly at the problem, secure in the knowledge the pest has been dealt with?
The European Union has completed its 16-year review of around 1,000 active substances authorised for use in pesticides across the continent before 1993. The result is a list of about 250 substances which have passed the harmonised EU safety assessment and can be authorised for use by Member States.
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.
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.
Students from across the globe have been selected for ENDURE's 2009 PhD Summer School, Modelling approaches to support integrated pest management.
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.
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.
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