• Citripar: user – friendly application and sustainable packaging

  March 31, 2025

  simplifies the application process. The hanging mechanism remains unchanged, enabling easy placement of the product in the crop canopy. The new Citripar [...] Planococcus ficus ) in citrus and grape crops, now features a new packaging designed with the environment and ease of application in mind. The redesigned packaging [...] developing fully sustainable packaging in the future. Citripar is registered for use only in California within the United States. Please verify local regulations

• Koppert Meets American Secretary of Agriculture

  January 29, 2020

  cooperation with the local government with the aim of easing the authorization processes of sustainable products on the American market." The message of René [...] given the opportunity to present their organization during this visit. René Ruiter gave a brief explanation in the experimental garden about the application [...] with the United States Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue during yesterday’s visit to host company Koppert Cress. Perdue is in the European

• Ten need-to-know facts about caterpillars

  June 28, 2023

  Paysandisia archon. The name of the butterfly or moth doesn’t always tell you everything about the species’ dietary preferences. For example, the cabbage moth [...] plant tissue. The most harmful caterpillars belong to the Noctuidae family (moths), which is also the largest butterfly family. Most moths in this family [...] active at night. The caterpillars don’t usually have a lot of hair, and they pupate in the ground. Another big cause for concern is the Tortricidae family

• Optimal Results with Entonem and Capsanem

  October 21, 2019

  nematodes is that the young plants are much stronger now. Growing Lisianthus is no easy task, so the more vital the plant, the better for the end-growers whose [...] The Egmond Lisianthus Nurseries in the Dutch town of ‘s-Gravenzande near The Hague have been using insectparasitic nematodes since 2015. It has reduced [...] Great Success In the past the young, fragile plants had been subjected to fungus gnats (Sciara) and shore flies (Scatella Stagnalis) while the range of chemical

• World Food Day 2021

  October 15, 2021

  better life’. The United Nations first Food Systems Summit held in Rome last month has called for bold new actions to transform the way the world produces [...] received the World Food Prize in 2019. Land of connections - Resilience Food Stories In this video Sjoerd Wartena tell us how he started a goat farm in France [...] and underwent a metamorphosis in lifestyle by living off the land and sharing knowledge. He started the Terre de Liens in 2003 to buy farms for a growing

• Ten facts about Spical

  August 1, 2022

  You can hang the slow-release sachets in the crop. For a number of weeks, the mites from the sachet enter the crop. So when the spider mites turn up, they’re [...] webs, both in greenhouses and outdoors. The product can be used in vegetable crops (except tomatoes), cut flowers, and fruit. The predatory mite in Spical [...] The predatory mite Neoseiulus californicus in Spical is one of the old hands at Koppert, having been used for 35 years to control spider mite. And the

• Phil Gerry at CAES Symposium at UCONN

  September 3, 2025

  greenhouses in the Northeast and Northwest before joining Koppert in 2021, and brings a wealth of practical knowledge and creative strategies to the topic of [...] managing some of the most troubling pests in garden mum and poinsettia production. The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station is the first agricultural [...] will be demonstrating how the Natutec Airobreez works at the upcoming CAES Biological Control Conference for Ornamental Growers in New Haven, Connecticut

• Swirskii Predatory Mite Not All That Demanding

  August 18, 2021

  where the insects live, which is directly around the leaf. The microclimate there is often very different from that found elsewhere in the crop. The combination [...] means that the mite truly thrives in greenhouse crops. However, in warmer regions and during the summer in temperate regions, release in outdoor crops [...] but the humidity should not be too low either. Otherwise the eggs will no longer hatch. More specifically, the humidity is particularly important in the

• Ten facts about spider mites

  November 18, 2021

  dry conditions, and the warmer it is, the faster the reproduction. The spider mite tends to appear in the same spots in the crop. In greenhouses, this is [...] spider mite – the more you know about this pest, the more effectively you can tackle it. The following is an overview of the key facts about the spider mite [...] plants close to the entrance or where it’s warm. Out in the field, you should pay close attention to warm spots where there is little wind. The variation is

• Natupol - Consistent Quality and Continuous Innovation

  June 10, 2020

  innovation The introduction of natural pollinators into greenhouses since the 80s resulted in spectacular increases in yield and improved quality in tomato [...] role in communicating the problems they encounter in the field. When it comes to finding solutions for today’s cultivation issues, we are all in partnership [...] n work on arrival. For example, in the United States, the Bombus impatiens , is the bumblebee of choice and is bred in Howell, Michigan. At that facility