Integrated Pest Management
Integrated pest management (IPM) is a coordinated and planned strategy for the prevention, detection and control of pests, weeds, and diseases. The continuing loss of plant protection products and rising levels of resistance means that the conventional crop protection toolbox is shrinking. At the same time, many policy drivers emphasise a need for reduced reliance on pesticides.
Can biocontrol help protect biodiversity?
Crop pathogens and pests reduce the yield and quality of agricultural production.
Biological diversity tends to favour more positive outcomes
When it comes to wheat blossom midges, it’s the orange one that gets all the limelight.
How we can combine the different components of control through integrated pest management
Using the predatory mite Typhlodromus pyri can be a successful biological control solution
Biostimulants as an IPM tool
The IPM Decisions platform is a “one stop shop” for decision support in IPM.
From cover crops to clean seed to nematicides, it’s all part of an IPM approach to nematode control.
Release of the predator Cryptolaemus montrouzieri bred by farmers
“We’re heading towards a future where we are far less reliant on insecticides.”
Components of intercrops are often less damaged by pest and disease organisms
There is considerable technical scope for further action.
Are you keen to find ways to reduce pesticide use on your farm
Can Birds Be Incorporated as Biological Control Agents into Integrated Pest Management Programs?
Do growers have an alternative for nematode control?
It is 12 years since spotted wing drosophila (SWD) was first recorded in the UK