• Ten tips to effectively tackle whitefly

  March 6, 2023

  transmit viruses. The tobacco whitefly is infamous for being able to transmit more than 25 viruses to the plants it feeds off. With some crops, including [...] comes to controlling. Look at how the infestation is developing and adjust your strategy if the control method is not working as you want it to. You should [...] pesticide resistance. If you opt for pesticides, ensure they are safe for use with biological control. Koppert has developed an app to help you with this – the

• Insight to the Production of Nematodes

  September 12, 2019

  and finally scaled-up to a production bioreactor. After each and every step, quality control takes places to check purity and to make sure the process [...] need oxygen to thrive and develop and oxygen continues to be added once the solution goes into the bioreactors. A recent innovation has led to an improved [...] in the bioreactors are taken every few days to check the purity. The nematodes need 12 days to develop for each of the three phases. When the production

• Using Capirel for healthy fruit orchards

  France are increasingly turning to sustainable nematode solutions to protect their orchards against pests – a living, natural solution for their fruit [...] helped a lot to control and reduce the pest pressure,’ Michel states. ‘It had a positive effect in the spring and there was less need for trapping to reduce [...] preventive treatment in the autumn to reduce the pest pressure for the following spring. Easy application and good results ‘For the preparation, I leave the

• Webinar Fit Roots for Plant Health

  March 2, 2020

  Hoogendoorn Growth Management jointly give a webinar about how to facilitate root health and condition to get the best possible plant health . When: Tuesday March [...] on water and energy balance. You can register for this webinar until March 12. Click here to register for the webinar. We published a whitepaper about this [...] time Executive Manager for the Koppert Foundation and is engaged in the training of stakeholders and knowledge management related to beneficial microbials

• Koppert introduces nematode solutions for agricultural pests

  November 21, 2022

  growing resistance to pesticides means that growers are looking for alternative solutions for controlling pests in their crops. In response to the growing demand [...] Swirski Aphids and How to Protect Your Crop Optimal Results with Entonem and Capsanem Insight to the Production of Nematodes Entonem for Effective Control [...] job IPM: The Answer to the Challenges of the Future IPM: The Path to a Successful Approach Beneficial nematodes that actively hunt for harmful pests are

• A turning point in Almeria: how predatory mites helped transform agriculture

  April 16, 2025

  are still many more to discover, ” he says. “ We will continue to innovate and adapt. That’s the only way to stay ahead .” This drive to innovate paid off [...] challenges with confidence. “ Our mission is to provide real, reliable solutions—not just for today, but for the future. ” Finding balance At the heart of [...] people said that biological control was only for the high-tech greenhouses in the north of Europe. Not for us. ” But things changed. And Koppert was at

• Ten need-to-know facts about caterpillars

  June 28, 2023

  Quality and Continuous Innovation Aphids and How to Protect Your Crop Insight to the Production of Nematodes Help! How Does Thrips get Into My Crop? Ten Facts [...] If you touch them, they will start to squirm and drop to the ground along a silk thread. Caterpillars grow about ten to twenty times in length in their short [...] of this. For example, spreading many pheromones can disorientate the males and leave them unable to locate the females. Another technique is to use the

• Perfect Potted Hydrangeas for Super-Strict Customers

  December 6, 2019

  stringent requirements on crop protection , the company needs to resort to biological control methods to fight pests wherever possible. The most troublesome pests [...] would to me be a better place to start." New issues Consultant Wim van der Meer agrees. "More uniformity would be nice as growers are always having to contend [...] thrips, which began to settle in hydrangeas a few years ago without being noticed. "They were a problem that needed to be solved. It’s easy to see why Koppert

• Poinsettia Cultivation Has To Apply IPM

  June 27, 2019

  Based Program IPM: The Answer to the Challenges of the Future IPM: The Path to a Successful Approach Koppert IPM app The How and Why of IPM NatuGro in strawberry [...] export to the UK know all about this. For example, there is a zero-tolerance policy towards Tobacco whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) . ‘The Department for Environment [...] cultivation consultant Richard Saarloos. ‘I'm trying to get DEFRA to be more nuanced in its approach to this by consulting with various stakeholders in the

• Koppert’s microbial solutions for sustainable food production

  October 15, 2020

  our struggle to produce food with shrinking resources. The ever-present question we face is: How to achieve food security for an increasing world population [...] now calls for a “profound change of global food and agricultural systems…to increase agricultural productivity and sustainable food production to alleviate [...] comes to innovative solutions for agriculture and horticulture, has invested much of its knowledge and research in finding microbial solutions for current