In addition to these inherent advantages of biological control, consumers have and will increasingly express concerns about food safety and environmental impact issues in relation to synthetic pesticide use, though they often have no direct way to influence crop protection policies.
Paper presented at the 10th Annual Biocontrol Industry Meeting (ABIM), Basel, Switzerland, October 20th, 2015.
The weakness of mechanized corps lay not in the design of their equipment, but rather in its poor mechanical state, the inadequate training of their crews, and the abysmal quality of Soviet military leadership in the first month of the war.
It was the debut of the German Panther tank, although the numbers employed at Kursk were small and the brunt of the burden was carried by the Panzer III, StuG III, and Panzer IV.
Large scale regular releases and mass production of natural enemies means that ABC is often a commercial activity (van Lenteren 2012).
Both were an approximately even match for the standard German medium tank, the Panzer IV, though each of these three tanks had particular advantages and weaknesses compared with the other two.
EASAC 2015), the development of resistance that makes pesticides less effective, and the appearance of new pests for which no pesticides are available (e.
Trichoderma asperellum T34 and Bacillus subtilis QST713, influence P uptake by wheat plants in different soils; this will allow us to identify the soil properties which affect the efficiency of P nutrition in plants.
Soviet armour plates left small gaps between them, and flaming petrol from the Molotov cocktails easily seeped into the fighting and engine compartment; portions of the armour plating that had been assembled with rivets also proved to be vulnerable.
We might address it as Conscious Agriculture, a term which we borrowed from the conscious capitalism movement (Mackey and Sissodia 2014).
Europe is the largest commercial market for invertebrate biological control agents, while North America has the largest sales of microbials.
Microbial biological control agents are produced by approximately 200 manufacturers, but this is an underestimate as no data are available for China or India (Dunham 2015).
III and Panzer IV, and were unable to penetrate the frontal armour of the new German Panther or Tiger I tank at standard combat ranges without tungsten rounds, and had to rely on tactical skill through flanking maneuvers and combined arms.
Thus, pesticide costs related to harmful effects on human health and the environment are externalized and are actually paid by society, which is unethical and unscrupulous because the pesticide industry only reaps the economic benefits without being responsible for these costs.
It was later confirmed that these tanks were being transported to Moscow for the 2015 Victory Day Parade.
Resistance from the military command and concerns about high production cost were finally overcome by anxieties about the poor performance of Soviet tanks in the Winter War in Finland, and the effectiveness of German tanks during the Battle of France.
During the Battle of Lake Khasan in July 1938 and the Battles of Khalkhin Gol in 1939, an undeclared border war with Japan on the frontier with occupied Manchuria, the Soviets deployed numerous tanks against the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA).
Mechanical breakdowns accounted for at least 50 percent of the tank losses in the summer fighting, and recovery or repair equipment was not to be found.
Another such tank, mounted atop the monument to Soviet tank crews in Prague, was the focus of significant controversy.
Interestingly, growers quickly took up the extra knowledge and methods to make biological control a success, and in quite a number of cases came up with new insights and technologies to improve release and establishment of invertebrate biological control agents.
There are about 500 commercial producers of invertebrate biological control agents worldwide, although most of these employ less than ten people each.
