Diversifying crop protection

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• ENDURE features in International Innovation
  

  ENDURE features strongly in the soon to be published International Innovation, an annual research report focused on emerging research and development in the food, agriculture, fisheries and biotechnology sectors.

• Kids explore agricultural science in practice
  

  Schoolchildren will become annual visitors to JKI’s Dahnsdorf field experimental station near Berlin, Germany, after the success of an unusual field day this summer which gave researchers the opportunity to explain and demonstrate plant protection in integrated and organic farming systems. JKI’s Bernd Hommel reports.

• New deliverables online: 99 reports available
  

  With the recent addition of more than 20 reports covering subjects as diverse as tools such as EuroWheat and WeedML, case studies encompassing field vegetables, grapevine, winter cererals and maize, and approaches ranging from landscape impacts on weeds to screening protocols for microbial biocontrol agents, ENDURE's library of publicly available deliverables now numbers 99 different documents.

• ENDURE 2010 Conference: Register now!
  

  ENDURE will this year host its second major international conference when it stages ‘Integrated Pest Management in Europe - The ENDURE Network of Excellence shares the fruits of four years’ research with the crop protection community’ at the Eurosites George V centre in Paris, France. No registration fees are being charged for this important event and you can now book your place online.

• Five leaflets explore grapevine alternatives
  

  ENDURE’s grapevine case study team has recently published a series of five leaflets in the From Science to Field series tackling subjects as varied as reducing herbicide use, Decision Support Systems, mating disruption, the use of microbial biocontrol agents and new disease-resistant grape varieties.

• IPM implementation: Ask the experts
  

  With European Member States facing significant challenges in introducing National Action Plans designed to deliver agricultural systems which make much greater use of Integrated Pest Management, the role of ENDURE’s Network of Experts is likely to become increasingly important.

• Maize systems: SWOT analysis and IPM
  

  For a crop that originates in the Americas, maize has established an extremely important place in European agriculture, whether it be in terms of acreages, the frequency with which is it grown or its role in crop rotation systems.

• UK pledges €15.5m for new research
  

  The UK Government is to pump more than £13.5 million (€15.5m) into more than 30 innovative crop protection research projects in a move it hopes will help farmers cope with new European Union regulations.

• IPM card game to stimulate group work
  

  Even the most dynamic lecture or PowerPoint presentation can sometimes fail to inspire participants, which is why training experts from the Danish Agricultural Advisory Service (DAAS) have devised an Integrated Pest Management card game to support IPM training programmes.

• International line-up for 3rd ENDURE Summer School
  

  Students from as far afield as China, Argentina and Uganda are among the candidates selected for ENDURE’s third PhD Summer School, which will be tackling ‘New and emerging agricultural pests, diseases and weeds’ in Volterra, Italy, this October.