This month’s newsletter launches the soilborne disease toolkit from the NZ Buttercup Squash Council–ALT project, and the upcoming ALT educational spray workshops, hosted in partnership with programme partners and focused on helping growers achieve effective spray coverage.
Biodiversity is a central theme this month, with a Bioeconomy Science Institute (BSI) report from the Vegetables NZ-Onions NZ-ALT biodiverse planting on vegetable farms project, a new case study on the crop protection approach used to produce a broccoli crop with reduced spray applications, and a grower survey on the topic.
Video case studies focus on the new tools being developed to help manage black field crickets and grower experiences from the Summerfruit NZ-ALT understory planting project. We also share new guidance on the use of alternative controls for tomato russet mite.
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