Impact of heat stress on cow milk production and fertility. Is your dairy farm ready to face heat waves?
This summer has just started but it has already been marked by some extreme heat episodes in central Europe. During the second and third week …Read More
Agronomist and scientific editor
Black sigatoka disease of banana : symptoms, control and indicators
Black Sigatoka or Black leaf spot disease of banana (scientific name : Pseudocercospora fijiensis) is one of the most economically important threat for banana growers. Sigatoka …Read More
Agronomist and scientific editor
Drought in southern France continues this February – have you thought about irrigating your vineyard?
Despite higher than average precipitations in December 2021, since the beginning of January dry weather and high atmospheric pressure have set in over most of …Read More
Agronomist and scientific editor
Agricultural insurances: improving climate risk predictions using crop models
Towards a new compensation system for French farmers
In the last years the French system for the compensation of crop losses has revealed its shortcomings. It …Read More
Agronomist and scientific editor
ITK creates new opportunities to reduce carbon, without reducing agricultural production
After producing one of the first French technological demonstrators for the estimation of carbon storage in agricultural soils, ITK is developing services and management tools …Read More
Agronomist and scientific editor
ITK and CIRAD launch Sigatocare, a new app to help banana growers
Bananas and their industry
Bananas are one of the cheapest and most consumed fruits around the world. In fact, they are the fourth most commonly traded …Read More
Agronomist and scientific editor
ITK launches global innovation in farming insurance. Replay the webinar.
Heat Stress Protect is a global farming insurance innovation which has been launched this year in France. In this launch webinar, ITK presents this new …Read More
Agronomist and scientific editor
A hot new tool on the dairy farm: Heat’Adapt®, to help you mitigate cattle heat stress
This summer, heatwaves and dry weather in much of southern Europe together with rainfall and flooding in other parts of the continent have combined to …Read More
Agronomist and scientific editor
Crop diseases : ITK’s data-driven tools reduce destructive impact on crop yield and quality
Crop diseases have always been the farmer’s nightmare because of their destructive impact on crop yield and quality. FAO estimates that annually between 20 to …Read More
Agronomist and scientific editor
Not cool: heat stress impacts cow health and milk production
Efficiency of thermoregulation mechanisms in cattle gets compromised as external temperature and humidity increase, and internal body temperature starts to rise. Heat stress has adverse …Read More
Agronomist and scientific editor