The 36th annual meeting of the Working Group Crop Pests will take place on 11th and 12th February 2026

Dr. Jörn Lehmhus
Institut für Pflanzenschutz in Ackerbau und Grünland
Julius Kühn-Institut
Messeweg 11-12
38104 Braunschweig
joern.lehmhus@julius-kuehn.de

Kristin Schwabe
Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Gartenbau Sachsen-Anhalt (LLG)
Abteilung 2 – Zentrum für Acker- und Pflanzenbau
Dezernat 24 „Integrierter Pflanzenschutz“
Strenzfelder Allee 22
06406 Bernburg
Kristin.Schwabe@llg.sachsen-anhalt.de

  • Finding answers to questions of planning, method, and analysis of experiments dealing with plant protection remedies against crop pests
  • Promoting scientific work by presenting new procedures and methods to minimize the output of herbicides and pesticides
  • Discussing current topics of integrated plant protection systems
  • Cooperation with working groups of related thematic topics
  • Pests as a cause for crop quality deficiencies
  • Symptomatology and diagnosis of crop pests
  • Strategies of infestation reduction in the field
  • Evolution of pest populations in times of climatic change
  • Pesticide resistance of pathogens
  • Economic relevance of protection strategies

Our working goup cooperates with representatives of the Julius Kühn-Institute, State plant protection agencies, industries, and universities.