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OFC 23: UK Policy Session - Mark Spencer MP

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The main UK Policy section at Oxford Farming Conference now on Farm TV:

Help guide development of new SFI standard for pest management

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Hi everyone,
ADAS are working with the NFU and SRUC to guide the development of a new Sustainable Farming Incentive Standard for Integrated Pest Management (IPM). This Defra-funded project will help farmers, growers and advisers to combine cultural, biological, physical and chemical tools to manage pests, weeds, and diseases in an environmentally sensitive way.

We are developing an online decision support tool and practical guidance to assist growers in producing IPM plans specific to their cropping system. To do this, we need as many arable, grass, and horticultural growers as possible to get involved now in the development so that when the SFI standard does come out in 2023, it is relevant and useful for all growers.

Participants will be reimbursed for their time on the project...

Agricultural Ethics: A Decision Making Tool for Farmers

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Written by Ralph Early

''No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced.'' David Attenborough

Not so long ago, wildlife in Britain was so much more abundant than it is today. Back in the 1960s, in early summer, one could walk the fields of most counties from Land’s End to John O’Groats and quite literally trip over wildlife: rabbits, hares, pheasants, partridge, and many other species hiding in knee-high grass. A stroll through meadows carpeted with stunningly beautiful wild flowers would fill the air with butterflies, as once disturbed they departed the sweet nectar in one location to alight on blossoms in another. At night the same meadows would be filled with moths, swarming...

AHDB: Why Integrated Pest Management is Closer than we think

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Dr Jon Knight, AHDB Head of Crop Protection assesses the shifting political emphasis on environmental protection and the future for Integrated Pest Management

What is Integrated Pest management (IPM)?

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations definition is as follows: Integrated Pest Management (IPM) means the careful consideration of all available pest control techniques and subsequent integration of appropriate measures that discourage the development of pest populations and keep pesticides and other interventions to levels that are economically justified and reduce or minimize risks to human health and the environment. IPM emphasises the growth of a healthy crop with the least possible disruption to...
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