Project Reports

A new toolkit is being developed to help growers of process vegetable crops to better manage soilborne diseases using practical,…

Finding a solution to weed management in annual biodiversity flower strips is the focus of a trial this season evaluating…

A grower fact sheet on use of predatory mites for spinach crown mite control has resulted from a Vegetables NZ-A…

A busy season of trials across multiple crops is planned for the final year of A Lighter Touch projects at the Pukekohe Research and…

Following successful summer trials of an acoustic caller to lure and trap black field crickets, the Vegetables New Zealand-A Lighter Touch project will this season further refine the new management tool for the kūmara and pasture pest. The project team will…

In a case of it’s a small world, the mobile biodiversity insectary concept has travelled from Pukekohe to the United…

Diversity of crop rotation is a key agroecological tool, and an arable project in Pukekohe is focused on bringing barley into the…

A project seeking registration for a new-to-New Zealand bioinsecticide has submitted its new organism application to the Environmental Protection Authority…

New Zealand regulators are both undertaking projects to improve the registration process for biological crop protection tools, following on from a global regulatory review undertaken by A…

Addressing cross-sector priorities and crop-specific needs are the main aims of efficacy trials for the upcoming and final season of the A Lighter Touch (ALT) programme.  Seven efficacy trials have been approved as…