News about Barbara Righini

Australian season kicks off, the shadow of some overnight frost does not sweep away the good omens

Production

15 Oct 2024

Cherry Growers Australia, an association that gathers Australian producers from all six cherry-growing areas of the country, organized a webinar to discuss the season, as Queensland, New South Wales, and Australia in October, and soon after, Victoria, prepare to harvest.

Icoel: ‘With Tomra the interconnection between processing machines is at its best’

Post-harvest​

10 Sep 2024

‘Our engineers and Tomra's work in close collaboration,’ says Bruno Stravato, ’it is in fact a co-design, for the projects we share. The machinery is complementary and the customer dialogues with us as if we were one company'.

With Advice and Consulting growers are never alone

Tech management

24 Jul 2024

The company is only 8 years old but has already followed 3,000 hectares in Italy and around the world. ‘We follow the whole project from the beginning. The agronomists - says Alexandra Caminschi - are all Italian and we rely on on-site managers who can pass on our know-how'.

Cherry tree covers: Protecta® allows ventilation and protection

Covers

12 Jul 2024

"Protecting plants is very important. That's why we wanted to try the Protecta® net," say Michele and his father Giuseppe De Tomaso, of the De Tomaso farm in Polignano a Mare, Bari (IT), experimenting on 100 square metres with the Arrigoni Spa dense-meshed net.

Rootstocks to the test, MSU presents 2022 results

Rootstocks

23 Apr 2024

Since 2017, the MSU team has been comparing the performance of early dwarfing rootstocks (all from the Corette® series), developed by the university itself, with reference rootstocks Gisela 5, Gisela 12, Gisela 3 (sweet cherry only) and Maxma14.

Apulian cherries, a season that seems to be under a good star

Production

09 Apr 2024

The 2024 Apulian cherry season seems to be promising: there is a climate of confidence and positivity among operators in Apulia. According to RICA, the Agricultural Accounting Information Network, Apulia is worth 30% of Italy's cherry production.

Bacterial canker in cherries, bacteriophage viruses as allies

Crop protection

05 Apr 2024

Researchers from the Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences Department at Michigan State University have been investigating the possibility of deploying bacteriophage viruses against bacterial canker for a few years now thanks to their specialisation in infecting bacteria.

Australia closes season, exports grow to 4,097t

Markets

29 Mar 2024

According to data from the Australian Trade and Investment Commission, around 20,000 tonnes of cherries are produced annually in Australia for a value of around €129 million. The '23-'24 season saw 4,097 tonnes exported. The growth was 43%.

ANA Chile® tells us about the new varieties that will be launched in 2025

Varieties

15 Mar 2024

To talk about the new varieties making their debut in Chile, we contacted Lorena Pinto, product manager of ANA Chile. Among the new varieties still in the testing phase is Nipama, which will be placed 3 to 5 days before Nimba, which is harvested between weeks 44 and 45.

Drosophila suzukii, hope from the sterile insect technique (SIT)

Crop protection

01 Mar 2024

The sterile insect technique (SIT) is based on the flooding of sterilised males of the species by ionising X-ray irradiation. SIT has been used successfully in the past against other key pests, e.g. the fruit fly.