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August 17th, 2017 — La Terre de chez nous | Fighting Drosophila, one plot at a time
This method eliminates pesticide treatments against spotted wing drosophila.
August 27th, 2017 — La Terre de chez nous | Sweet corn: a large-scale trichogramma trial
To cut back on the use of pesticides used to control the European corn borer, Spécialités Lassonde has teamed up with IRDA to conduct trials on the large-scale deployment of trichogramma.
September 8th, 2017 — Agricultural soils study: launch of a major five-year Québec-wide project
MAPAQ tasked IRDA with conducting a study on the health of Québec’s agricultural soils.
September 12th, 2017 — TVA | Report on Saint-Bruno Demo Day
Report on a demonstration at the Organic Agriculture Innovation Platform.
September 21st, 2017 — Meteomedia | How will this year’s apples turn out?
What kind of apple crop should we expect this year? IRDA researcher Gérald Chouinard answers this question.
September 22nd, 2017 — La Presse | “Micro-wasps” to the rescue in corn crops
An article that describes the use of trichogramma wasps to battle the corn borer.