• New Leaf Plants back Koppert biocontrol

  June 9, 2021

  developing new propagation facilities. The primary aim is clear: to become one of the leading producers of climbing plants in the home and European markets. “We [...] Evesham in Worcestershire. Business owners David and Nicole Higginson relocated to their new 30 acre site in 2013, with a vision of becoming one of the most [...] vision of growing plants in a more environmentally friendly and ethical manner, by reducing the use of peat, diminishing the use of chemical pesticides

• Hunting season starts early with Anso-Mite

  February 18, 2021

  adds strength to the thrips management strategy. The Koppert A. andersoni strain has been tested in several field experiments in the Netherlands and Spain [...] Anso-Mite comes in to fill the gap early in the growing season.’ Natural range and crop Anso-Mite is a naturally-occurring species in many countries and [...] of Amblyseius andersoni in nursery stock projects in the Netherlands several years ago where he found it had overwintered in the mild Dutch winter. ‘I conducted

• Biological solution against green shield bug

  June 23, 2021

  chemical products, in combination with climate change, has resulted in an increase in the level of infestations in greenhouses. Controlling the green shield [...] hard to make this product available in 2022 for their commercial partners. Over the course of the previous decade, the southern green shield bug has ravaged [...] greenhouses in southern Europe. This pest is also gaining ground in heated, high-tech greenhouses in north-western Europe and central Europe. The disappearance

• Following Swirski, Spical undergoes revolutionary upgrade

  November 26, 2018

  With the release of Swirski Ulti-Mite , Koppert placed a revolutionary update of the successful predatory mite Amblyseius swirskii on the market. The company [...] it lasts longer. The predatory mite can find the best possible conditions inside the sachet resulting in a better developed population to control spider [...] protection . ‘As it increases the robustness of the system, Spical Ulti-Mite can yield even greater results in these places in particular.’ Thanks to its

• Ahold Delhaize: ‘We can't sell anything without substantiated information’

  November 26, 2018

  chains in Europe and the USA. The major supermarkets that belong to this group are Albert Heijn in the Netherlands and Delhaize in Belgium. The group also [...] with the product is essential according to Mol. ‘After all, the products from the ornamental plant sector are sold under our labels and brands in the shops [...] ornamental plant growers in the Netherlands and elsewhere are already taking steps in the right direction when it comes to the requirements set for transparency

• European biocontrol industry proposes new EU regulatory framework

  November 28, 2018

  precise timeline for the evaluation process, with evidence-based procedures and tailored data requirements. In the White Paper sent to the EU, it proposes that [...] expertise in close communication with the applicants. IBMA’s President, Willem Ravensberg, says the new approach will benefit human health, the environment [...] field. Continuing in the way things are done now, the EU will never meet the sustainability goals it has set for itself,’ asserts Koppert’s head of Regulatory

• Personal message to our customers

  April 8, 2020

  In these turbulent times we reach out to you. Dear grower, In these turbulent times we reach out to you. Because, without you the World wouldn’t have fresh [...] Especially in a time when it is increasingly important to stay healthy, we want to make sure you know that we are here for you. No matter where you are in the [...] the World, or which crop you grow. Thanks to the effort of all our colleagues across the World, we are still able to produce our natural enemies, bumblebees

• Isonet T for Tuta absoluta

  May 8, 2019

  applied at the start of the tomato crop, or even a few days in advance of planting ( e.g. in December or January for long season crops). The dispensers [...] contains an aluminium wire to enable its positioning in the greenhouse, and the other filled with the specific T. absoluta sex pheromone (see picture below) [...] dispenser for the mating disruption of the tomato leaf mining moth, Tuta absoluta Isonet T (MAPP 17929) is a controlled release dispenser for the mating disruption

• Bacterial canker of tomato

  to eradicate the infection. In tomato, growers must either destroy the infected crop entirely or, if the crop is old, only the plants in the infected area [...] with a brown centre. In potato, the disease usually only occurs in the second half of the season. The first symptoms are wilting of the lower leaves and [...] expansion of the wilt upwards. Cutting the stem at the foot shows whitish ooze with bacteria in the case of C lavibacter infection, but other than that the disease

• Foot rot of cereals

  humidity, the conidia germinate and penetrate the host's tissues. Inside the plant, the fungus colonizes the root and lower stem, leading to the characteristic [...] making it particularly problematic in temperate regions. Damage symptoms M. nivale is the primary pathogen in the group that causes seedling blight. Seedling [...] ears often show above the point of infection around the milky ripe stage (GS 75). Later infections may result in infection of the grain without obvious