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Download PDF Adopting integrated pest management (IPM) strategies is steadily becoming a very important part of farm businesses. But what role do genetics and variety choice play in this? CPM finds out more. From an IPM point of view, it’s more favourable to get genetics to do the heavy-lifting. By Charlotte Cunningham Though decisions in agriculture have never been based on just one factor, perhaps the true value of integrated pest management (IPM) is only just coming to fruition. For some time, how we protect crops and the tools we need to grow them has been a dialogue involving just chemistry and genetics and how they can be used together to support each other. But the reality is that there are a whole host of other factors and elements – like microbes and biostimulants – which can be manipulated and used to influence plant behaviour and performance. So while farming is moving towards a much more multi-faceted approach – rather than simply operating in a 2D world – perhaps as an industry, we are only just starting to scratch the surface on an area of great depth. That said, there have been a number of early…
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