integrated pest management

  1. Agriland RSS

    Report: EU policies undermined the farming of oilseed rape in Europe

    Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Contradictory EU policies first encouraged and then undermined the farming of oilseed rape in Europe, according to a new analysis involving a team of Rothamsted Research scientists. Their report confirms that climate change polices initially rewarded...
  2. CHAPs News

    New UK-India project to tackle fall armyworm

    New UK-India project to tackle fall armyworm Smallholders in India will be able to trial a new monitoring tool to assist in the fight against prolific crop pest fall armyworm, thanks to a recently launched international agri-tech project. Although native to the Americas, fall armyworm...
  3. TFF

    What Is Regenerative Agriculture? doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2020.577723

    What Is Regenerative Agriculture? A Review of Scholar and Practitioner Definitions Based on Processes and Outcomes Authors: Peter Newton, Nicole Civita, Lee Frankel-Goldwater, Katharine Bartel and Colleen Johns Regenerative agriculture is an alternative means of producing food that, its...
  4. TFF

    How contradictory EU policies led to the development of a pest doi:10.1111/gcbb.12922

    How contradictory EU policies led to the development of a pest: the story of oilseed rape and the cabbage stem flea beetle Authors: Patricia Ortega-Ramos,Samantha M. Cook,Alice L. Mauchline Abstract Oilseed rape can be used to produce biodiesel which can substitute non-renewable fuels for...
  5. CPM RSS

    Managing herbicide resistance

    Written by Charlotte Cunningham from CPM Magazine Download PDF Though the launch of Luximo may change the game for grassweed control, IPM will still be the core strategy in the battle against blackgrass. CPM explores the topic. It’s important to do as much as you can before you open the can. By...
  6. CPM RSS

    Integrated management – Putting IPM into practice

    Written by cpm from CPM Magazine Download PDF There has been plenty of lip service paid to integrated pest management over the years. CPM looks at what it means and how it’s being put in to practice by farmers in the UK. Sometimes the best thing you can do environmentally is use a plant...
  7. Janet Hughes Defra

    New information about local nature recovery and landscape recovery

    Morning all and happy new year. Further to the information we published about the Sustainable Farming Incentive in December (see https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sustainable-farming-incentive-how-the-scheme-will-work-in-2022), today we're publishing information about the 2 other new...
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    Concerned about Red Tractor collapse.

    With the cut in funding from AHDB and the pending creation of a new competing scheme, surely RT's days are numbered? What will that mean for those of us who are signed up for assurance if RT goes under? Will we still be able to market our produce or will the alternative schemes take us on if...
  9. AHDB Podcast RSS

    310: Integrated pest management (IPM) in UK cropping systems

    310: Integrated pest management (IPM) in UK cropping systems Written by Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board Integrated pest management (IPM) is moving up the farming and political agendas. At the AHDB Agronomists’ Conference 2021, Neil Paveley (ADAS) and Phil Jarvis (Voluntary...
  10. Direct Driller Magazine

    Nuffield Catch Up – Mark Dewes

    Nuffield Catch Up – Mark Dewes Mark is a farmer and agronomist from Withybrook in Warwickshire. After starting with ADAS in 1996 and working with NIABTAG, AICC and Agrii he was awarded a Nuffield Scholarship to evaluate the role agronomists play in stewarding pesticide use. Think of...
  11. CPM RSS

    AHDB Recommended List – Traits for success

    Written by Charlotte Cunningham from CPM Magazine Download PDF The 2022/23 AHDB Recommended List sees a whopping 37 new varieties added across wheat, barley, oilseed rape and oats. CPM attended the launch to find out more. Specialist traits are more important as growers look to adopt IPM. By...
  12. Defra Farming

    How the Sustainable Farming Incentive will develop

    How the Sustainable Farming Incentive will develop Written by Cindy Hughes © Natural England/Peter Roworth Last week we published details on how the new Sustainable Future Incentive scheme will work in 2022. The Sustainable Farming Incentive in 2022 is very much a starting point. We are...
  13. Defra Farming

    The Sustainable Farming Incentive: what’s new, improved and coming in 2022

    The Sustainable Farming Incentive: what’s new, improved and coming in 2022 Written by Tom Lewis Today we published further information on the Sustainable Farming Incentive. You can find it, in full, on GOV.UK. In this post, I’ll share a summary of the things that are new, the things we’ve...
  14. Agriland RSS

    Sustainable Farming Incentive: 2022 rates revealed

    Written by Michelle Martin from Agriland Rates for the 2022 Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) scheme have been revealed by Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs George Eustice today (Thursday, December 2). “We will pay a more generous payment rate than previous EU...
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