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INSTINCT project: Laimburg Centre and Bozen University on the development of new smart solutions against harmful insects

Press review

08 Mar 2024

The project involves the development of traps using new attractants, smart sensors and artificial intelligence. The aim is to minimise the use of insecticides in agriculture with a more environmentally and economically sustainable strategy.

Monitoring bud temperatures to prevent damage from spring frosts

Press review

29 Feb 2024

Knowing the critical temperature at which buds are killed is crucial for taking timely action against frost. Cold hardiness models use air temperature as a predictive factor for specific critical temperatures of the cultivar.

Washington State University proposes work plan to prevent and combat X-disease

Press review

28 Feb 2024

Welcome Sauer, an orchard analyst working with the university, hopes to distribute the model in the form of a workbook, so as to adjust the basic numbers for orchard operating costs to an economic model for X-disease mitigation.